
The National Intellectual Development Foundation (NIR; works under the Innopractics brand), led by Katerina Tikhonova - the youngest daughter of Vladimir Putin - in 2015-2016 received at least 877 million rubles. This established an investigation into the Corruption Fund, the results of which were published in his blog by the founder of the FBK Alexei Navalny.
The total amount of contracts won by the Tikhonova Foundation against state -owned companies amounted, according to the investigation, 451,675,761 rubles. In particular, almost 221 million rubles received from Transneft, from Rosneft, according to the results of 10 competitions - almost 164 million, from the Atomenergoprom, the 100 percent subsidiary of Rosatom, and over 49 million, according to the results of two competitions.
Over 425 million rubles, the Tikhonova Foundation received in 2015 in the form of "targeted contributions". At the same time, notes the FBK, the sum of these "contributions" for this year is not yet known. Given the total revenues of the organization may exceed 1 billion rubles.
“You ask: what kind of money this money has been paid for?” Navalny continued. “Well, for all kinds of innovation.”
Thus, the Federal Research Center "Informatics and Management" of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FIC IU RAS) paid the Tikhonova fund of 2.5 million rubles for the "component part of the development work" Development of the documentation of the IIS technology project in terms of psychological and pedagogical requirements for users in the context of its inclusion in the Ecosystem of the Digital Valley of Crimea. "
“Where does Katerina go in the money received?” The Navalny post says. “Answer: We don’t know. In the“ Our Results ”section , the Fund website reports that a certain congress was carried out and certain projects were implemented for the same state -owned companies - Rosneft, Transneft and Rosatom. No specifics.
In April of this year, the media found that the budget of the Tikhonova Foundation for 2015 increased by 46 percent . If in 2014 the total expenses of the organization amounted to 281.6 million rubles, then in 2015 - 411.5 million.
As the NIR budget is formed, the journalists could not find out. The document published in the public domain said that funds to the fund come from Russian citizens and companies, as well as from their own commercial activities, but no specific figures were given.
Among the members of the Board of Trustees of the Tikhonova Foundation is the president of Rosneft Igor Sechin, General Director of Rostec Sergey Chemezov, Chairman of the Board of Gazprombank Andrei Akimov, main owner of Novatek Leonid Michelson and General Director of Sibura Dmitry Konov.