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Kings of Olympic orders
Astronomical 1 trillion 136 billion rubles ($ 36.4 billion)-so much has already been spent at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. For the remaining games before the opening of the games, 390 billion rubles will spend more than 305 days. And they master these billions mainly close to Vladimir Putin, says one of the opposition leaders Boris Nemtsov: he conducted his own investigation and prepared a report that will be published in May.*
| *Continuation. See the New Times No. 5 for February 18, 2013 , see. |
Myth of myths: the construction of Olympic facilities is carried out at the expense of private investment. In fact, the Winter Olympiad in the tropics is carried out either at the expense of the budget, either at the expense of state corporations, or at the expense of joint -stock companies owned or under state control. There are only two large private investors, businessmen Oleg Deripaska and Vladimir Potanin. Moreover, in relation to private investments, the rule applied, according to which 70% of the investments were covered at the expense of Vnesheconombank loans (state corporation), and 30% were supposed to make private investments. However, already at the end of 2012, the authorities de facto admitted that almost all, without exception, the Olympiad objects are unprofitable and will never pay off. “Investors began to critically look at the market risks of project implementation. A question arose about payback, ”they carefully expressed themselves in Vnesheconombank. And increased the share of VEB loans to 90%.
Thus, the total volume of state investment in the game training program is 96%.
Troika Champions
The largest investor in the construction of Olympic facilities is the Olympstroy state corporation. She masters 303.9 billion rubles of budget money. At the same time, initially it was about 143 billion rubles. But in 2011, the government unexpectedly doubled the amount of the contribution to Olympstroy. In the explanatory note, the Ministry of Regional Development then did not even consider it necessary to explain why the increase in expenses was required, but he indicated that these costs were already provided for the federal budget.
Thus, Olympstroy accounts for 20% of the Olympiad budget. The company is responsible for the construction of stadiums in the Imereti lowland, the main Olympic village and infrastructure, as well as coordinates general preparations for the Olympics. From the moment of its creation in 2007, there were already three leaders: Semen Weinstok, Viktor Kolodyazhny, Taimuraz Bolloev, and is now led by Sergey Gaplikov, in 2007. The personnel leapfrog is a certificate of chaos and a mess in the state corporation responsible for the Olympics. At the same time, each personnel rearrangement in the leadership of Olympstroy was accompanied by the initiation of criminal cases on fraud, corruption and abuse of power: only after Bolloev’s resignation, 27 criminal cases were instituted in 2011. However, not one of them was brought to the court.
And although in 2007 it was announced that the Olympic construction would be established by parliamentary control, Olympstroy was never included in the list of companies that should report on their activities before the State Duma. The attempt of deputies-communists to change this in 2011 was unsuccessful, although three factions supported the initiative. Deputies from United Russia voted together. And now it is already clear why.
In second place in the development of budget funds - Russian Railways OJSC (Russian Railways). 100% state -owned company. The head is Putin's friend by the Lake Cooperative Vladimir Yakunin. Russian Railways was responsible for the construction of roads and railways (including the most expensive object of the Olympiad - the Adler -Krasnaya Polyana road - more than 200 billion rubles), the reconstruction of the Tuapse -Adler railway, the construction and modernization of the stations (in Adler, Dagomys, Matsesta, Hosta, Sochi), and the creation of trucks. In total, according to the annual reports of the company, about 300 billion rubles, that is, about 20% of the Olympic funds, from the budget and by increasing the railway tariff. That is, at the expense of taxpayers. In 2008 alone, the Olympic increase in the tariff amounted to 1% of all types of transportation around the country.
And they close the three leaders of the company affiliated with the structures of the Rotenbergs, Arkady and Boris brothers, childhood friends Vladimir Putin. They built a gas pipeline, roads, airport, Adler TPP, cargo and seaport and other infrastructure facilities. The total amount of budget funds and Gazprom funds, which received their companies, amounted to about 229 billion rubles - 15% of the total budget of the Olympiad. That is, every seventh Olympic ruble has been mastered by Rotenbergs.
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Each personnel permutation in the leadership of Olympstroy was accompanied by the initiation of criminal cases: only after Bolloev’s resignation, 27 criminal cases were instituted
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The remaining large participants in the Olympic construction site master from 4% to 10% of the funds allocated by the budget. These are mainly companies that are partially or fully controlled by the state.
Gazprom OJSC, the chairman of the board of which is the friend and former subordinate of Putin at the St. Petersburg City Hall, Alexei Miller, was busy in four facilities with a total value of 160 billion rubles. For this money, the same Dzhubga-Sochi gas pipeline is built, in a row to which Rotenberg received (see above), Adler TPP (built Rotenberg again), a mining and tourist center and a Laura ski-biathlon complex with a village.
The administration of the Krasnodar Territory, which is headed by the Governor, scandalously known in Kushchevka and Crimean, will spend more than 109 billion rubles on the Olympiad, as follows from the total cost estimate (according to the data as of January 1, 2013, 77.7 billion was already spent). We are talking about investments in the infrastructure of the city of Sochi, including the construction of roads, utilities and housing.
The Olympic budget of Kubanenergo ** and the federal network company (FSK) ***, according to analysts, - at least 50 billion rubles. Money is spent on the development of the network economy, including the modernization of high -voltage transmission lines for the transfer of energy to the Sochi area for the game period. In addition, the FSK, until the end of October 2013, under an agreement with Olympstroy, will send nine mobile gas turbine power plants in Sochi to provide the Olympiad with electricity.
| ** The company, controlled by OJSC Holding IDSK, which is the main shareholder of which is the Federal Property Management Agency. *** The main shareholder is the Federal Property Management Agency. |
And finally, Sberbank of Russia OJSC. The chairman of the board is German Gref, a longtime, since the time of St. Petersburg, Putin's ally. The springboard and the sports-tourist resort "Mountain Carousel" are being built, the center of which will be the "slides of the city" with the Olympic media. The total amount of investment in these projects, according to the Vedomosti newspaper, during the implementation grew from 16 to 75–80 billion rubles by 2012.
In addition to the above main customers and contractors of the Olympiad, Inter RAO (modernization of the Sochi TPP), ALROSA, Presidential Affairs and other state -owned companies and structures take part in the preparation of Sochi. They account for about 13-15% of the Olympic budget.
The construction of the Olympic facilities mainly takes part in the company controlled by the state
** Private faces **As private investors, the Olympiad are “Interros” by Vladimir Potanin and the subsidiaries of Bazel Oleg Deripaska.
Interros Potanin invested 68.6 billion rubles in the construction of the Rosa Khutor ski resort. Of these, 55.7 billion rubles are a vneseconubank loan.
Oleg Deripaska in 2007 planned to spend about 45 billion rubles. To date, its investments are in the region of 40 billion. Objects - the Olympic village in the Imereti lowland, cargo port, Sochi airport. Deripaska also participated in the construction of a sabler of the resort prospect. And they received a credit line from Vnesheconombank for 22 billion rubles. In February of this year, it became known that the VEB no longer knows what to do with at least one loan issued by Deripaska: the bank allocated 4 billion rubles for the construction of a cargo port in 2009, and now, according to the Kommersant newspaper, he considers this loan as a hopeless one - the port turned out to be a loss -making.
February 2013 View of the Olympic Stadium in Adler
** Favorites **The position of the participants in the construction of the Olympiad is radically different. Potanin and Deripaska are forced to invest their funds and take loans, risking never recording projects. Sberbank and Gazprom perceive participation in the construction of the Olympics as a forced encumbrance imposed by him by the president. Russian Railways builds at the expense of the budget and raising tariffs for railway transportation, and Olympstroy “masters” state billions, while remaining a state corporation. And only the Rotenbergs earned, as the analysis and calculations of experts show, fabulous profits on the infrastructure construction of Olympic facilities. For example, the revenue of the Stroygazmontazh company only in 2011 increased one and a half times: from 154 billion rubles to 241.4 billion, and net profit increased by 4.5 times - from 3.7 billion to 17 billion. At the same time, their private companies are obtained, responsibility compared to state corporations and private investors was reduced to zero, because the objects that they build were transferred to are transmitted by translated by The balance of the state.
The structures of the Rotenbergs received 21 in a row for the Olympic construction sites worth 229 billion rubles, or about $ 7 billion. This is more than the costs of the entire Olympics in Vancouver ($ 6 billion).
Here are specific examples.
In 2009, their company Stroygazmontazh received from Gazprom without a contract for the construction of the Dzhubga -Sochi gas pipeline worth 32.6 billion rubles. However, a year earlier, the state corporation announced the construction of this facility for 8-10 billion rubles. For the Rotenbergs, the price rose almost four times. That is, exactly as many times, how much has grown over six years the budget of the Olympiad.
The parameters of the Dzhubga - Sochi gas pipeline: diameter 530 mm, length 177 km, costs of 1 km - € 4.6 million. Most of the gas pipeline passed along the bottom of the Black Sea. Therefore, for comparison, it is natural to take the North Stream gas pipeline, which is laid along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Stroygazmontazh also took part in his construction. Two branches 1224 km long, the cost is € 8.8 billion, that is, the cost of 1 km of one branch - € 3.6 million. Thus, the Olympic gas pipeline - despite its capacity seven times less than the capacity of the Nord Stream - cost € 1 million more than a kilometer of the Baltic gas pipeline. And this despite the fact that the average price of the construction of the Northern Stream itself was more than three times higher than the European, which caused a flurry of indignation in the European press. The cost of the Olympic gas pipeline exceeds the average European price by almost five times. And this is the first, but not the only price Olympic record set by the Rotenbergs.
Scandalous contests for the construction of a decorated avenue for the construction of a resort prospect in Sochi ended in the victory of several investors. Deripaska won the right to build first of all an understudy, and the contract for the second and third in October 2010 received OJSC Mostotrest. And this happened just a few days after it became known that the company's blocking package acquired the structures of Arkady Rotenberg. The total length of the 2nd and 3rd queues of the Dubler of the resort prospect is 10.8 km, the cost of the contract is 59.36 billion rubles. Thus, one kilometer of the doublet of the resort prospect cost more than 5 billion rubles! Or $ 170 million.
The understudy is a set of roads, tunnels and bridges. Even if we proceed from the fact that the understudy is a continuous tunnel (and this is the most expensive construction object), as well as from the average kilometer of the tunnel in Europe $ 120 million, we see an excess of cost in comparison with European analogues almost a half times. However, the super-price did not save from accidents: in March of this year, the tunnel of the 3rd stage occurred, the soil failed, and the house stood on it went on it.
Finally, Adler TPP. A contract for its construction in 2009 was given to Gazprom controlled by the Rotenberges of TEK Mosenergo OJSC. In 2010, Putin announced that the cost of the construction of the Adler TPP is 28 billion rubles at a capacity of 360 megavatts. Thus, the price of the station in terms of one kilowatts is $ 2600, which is two to three times higher than the average-Irish price for gas thermal power plants.
The response of the Honorary Chamber to the request of the deputy Dmitry Gudkov with a request to provide materials for the construction of the construction of Olympic facilities
For official use
The multi -billion dollar expenses for the Olympics have already become the subject of a wide public discussion. The Accounts Chamber, which, by law, is obliged to control state, including budget, expenses, such reports prepares on a quarterly. However, they are all under the heading "for official use." In February 2013, the Accounts Chamber unveiled only the data that Olympstroy made the rise in the cost of Olympic objects by 15.5 billion rubles. The figure, of course, is huge, but it is only 1% of the budget of the Olympiad. It is impossible to believe that the scale of abuse during the cutting of the Olympic budgets was 1%.
But even this information, as well as specific violations committed during construction, the authorities carefully hide. On February 19, 2013, the State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov sent a request to the Accounts Chamber in the name of its chairman Sergei Stepashin with a request to provide information on the results of inspections of Olympic construction projects. On April 1, the answer came: the materials based on the results of the checks were sent to the State Duma, we will not send the second time. Like, look there. Dmitry Gudkov has been looking for a week now.
But it is unlikely that a response will ever be received about criminal cases No. 326956 and 326493, which were initiated in June 2012 by the investigative part of the Investigative Department of the Department of Internal Affairs in Sochi on the grounds of the crime under Part 3 of Art. 30, part 4. Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud) - as the investigation suggests, Olympstroy and its contractor NPO “NPO“ Mostovik ”deliberately surpassed the cost of building Olympic facilities in the amount of 2 billion 520 million rubles and 22 billion 973 million 830 rubles, respectively. According to media reports with reference to law enforcement officials, these cases were prepared for sending to the court. But they didn’t get to him.
You can state: one record at the Olympics in Sochi has already been set - a record for cuts and kickbacks, the volume of which the Olympic movement seemed to have not yet known.
Olympic objects of the Rotenberg brothers
| Name of the object | Contractor | Contract value (in billion rubles) | Source |
| Construction of the central highway of the city of Sochi "Dubbler of the Kurortny Prospekt", 2 and 3 queues | Mostotrest OJSC | 59.36 | Annual Report of Mostotrest OJSC for 2011 Sochi-24 |
| Dzhubga-Lazarevskoye-Sochi gas pipeline | "Stroygazmontazh" | 32.6 | Olympstroy report for 2011 |
| Adler TPP | OJSC "TEK Mosenergo" | 28 | This figure was called by Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the VEB supervision council in July 2010 about the Adler TPP project |
| Reconstruction of the Airport of Sochi (Adler) | LLC "Transstroymechanization" | 3.8 | Annual report of Mostotrest OJSC for 2010 |
| Construction of a media center in Sochi ** | LLC Corporation Ingtranstroy* | 14 | The annual report of OJSC Mostotrest for 2011 the characteristics of the facility on the website of the Inzhtransstroy Corporation Technical indicators of the media center |
| Reconstruction of the passenger seaport of Sochi | LLC Corporation Ingtranstroy* | 9.98 | Official website of LLC "Corporations inzhtransstroy" |
| Construction of the Alpika-Service highway-Rosa Khutor | LLC Corporation Ingtranstroy* | 16.4 | Annual Report of Mostotrest OJSC for 2011 |
| Engineering protection of the territory of the Imereti lowland, including coastalization | LLC Corporation Ingtranstroy* | 8.3 | The annual report of Mostotrest OJSC for 2010 is the annual report of Mostotrest OJSC for 2011 |
| Design, survey and construction and installation work for the main media center | LLC Corporation Ingtranstroy* | 8 | Annual Report of Mostotrest OJSC for 2010 |
| A complex of buildings and structures "Small Akhun" in the Imereti lowland | LLC Corporation Ingtranstroy* | 6.25 | The annual report of OJSC Mostotrest for 2011 the main techno-economic indicators of the facility |
| Construction of a section of the M-27 Dzhubga-Sochi highway (on the Adler-Veseloye site) | Mostotrest OJSC | 5.78 | Annual Report of Mostotrest OJSC for 2010 |
| Construction of the Central Road Country of Sochi "Dubbler of the Kurortny Prospekt", 1 turn | Mostotrest OJSC | 5.5 | Annual Report of Mostotrest OJSC for 2010 |
| Construction of the ADLER RING transport interchange in Sochi | Mostotrest OJSC | 4.9 | Annual Report of Mostotrest OJSC for 2010 |
| Track for car racing "Formula 1" | LLC Corporation Ingtranstroy* | 4.8 | Annual Report of Mostotrest OJSC for 2011 |
| Construction of the Alpika-Service highway-Rosa Khutor | LLC "Transstroymechanization" | 4.7 | Annual Report of Mostotrest OJSC for 2010 |
| Creation of a cargo area of the port of Sochi | LLC Corporation Ingtranstroy* | 4.7 | Annual Report of Mostotrest OJSC for 2010 |
| Building the Blue Dali Transport Building in Sochi | Mostotrest OJSC | 2.9 | Annual Report of Mostotrest OJSC for 2010 |
| Building a denouement on the Jubga - Sochi highway | LLC Corporation Ingtranstroy* | 2.9 | Годовой отчёт ОАО «Мостотрест» за 2010 год Годовой отчёт ОАО «Мостотрест» за 2011 год |
| Разработка рабочей документации и строительство объектов морского порта в Сочи с береговой инфраструктурой | ООО «Корпорация Инжтрансстрой»* | 2.59 | Годовой отчёт ОАО «Мостотрест» за 2010 год |
| Строительство автодороги от комплекса трамплинов до основных трибун со съездом на трассу для лыжного двоеборья | ООО «Корпорация Инжтрансстрой»* | 2,2 | Годовой отчёт ОАО «Мостотрест» за 2011 год |
| Трасса для лыжного двоеборья (проектные и изыскательские работы, строительство) | ООО «Корпорация Инжтрансстрой»* | 1.2 | Официальный сайт ООО «Корпорации Инжтрансстрой» |
| Total | 228,86 | ||
*В начале 2013 года А. Ротенберг и его сын вышли из капитала «Инжтрансстроя». And this is no accident. Как видно из таблицы «Инжтрансстрой» отвечает за строительство многочисленных объектов инфраструктуры Олимпиады, а сроки ввода срываются. См. «Ротенберг сходит с олимпийской дистанции. «Мостотрест» выходит из капитала «Инжтрансстрой»: источник связывает сделку с аудитом сроков сдачи олимпийских объектов»
** Строительство Медиацентра упомянут в докладе Human Rights Watch в связи с нарушением прав рабочих , которым до полугода не выплачивалась заработная плата. Каково будет качество выполненных работ — вы и сами сможете догадаться
Фотографии: ИТАР-ТАСС, Reuters