We have already eaten for a long time

To complete the construction of facilities of the first stage of the Cosmodrome, the East Federal Agency for Special Construction is not enough about seven billion rubles. This was reported by "Kommersant" with reference to sources involved in the construction.

By October 31, special construction should hand over 20 objects. However, at the beginning of the month, the high -ranking agency official notified the leadership of the Roscosmos state corporation about the lack of money to complete the construction and requested additional funding.

“The state corporations were just in shock: at first they thought that this was some kind of joke,” an employee of the government apparatus told the publication. According to him, Vice-Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin was notified of the situation and notifying the construction. “This news did not delight him. There will be a big analysis of flights,” the source said.

The official representative of Roscosmos said that the state corporations are known about the request of a special building to allocate additional financing. At the same time, the state corporations noted that all the funds necessary to complete the construction of facilities of the first stage of the cosmodrome "were transferred to the general contractor within the prescribed time."

In March, Salo is known that, in the aggregate of problems on the eastern special construction, he lost the status of the only general contractor. Builders of the second stage of the Cosmodrome will be taken by the competition

As of May 13, 84 billion rubles were spent on the construction of paramount facilities of the eastern. At the same time, the Prosecutor General tried to find out what 16 billion rubles were spent on), but could not do this.

At the end of April, only the "launch minimum" was involved in the first launch of the eastern at the end of April. These are 11 primary objects, without which it is impossible to deliver spacecraft to orbit.

Vostochny cosmodrome has been built in the Far East near the village of Uglegorsk in the Amur Region since 2011. On September 11, it was reported that the investigation revealed theft during the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome in the amount of almost 5.4 billion rubles. "The investigation of criminal cases is ongoing. The investigation is conducting actions on the territory of more than 20 subjects of the country," a source in law enforcement agencies noted. In connection with the construction of the cosmodrome, more than 20 criminal cases related to theft of funds, abuse of authority, and delays in the payment of salaries of workers were instituted.