How much does the "basket from Ivanovich" cost?

The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, continues to congratulate partners on the holidays with branded baskets. Their price, according to The Bell, exceeds the permissible 3 thousand rubles.

The contents of the gift basket from Igor Sechin. Photo: The Bell

Russian officials are forbidden to receive gifts more than 3 thousand rubles. And after the case of Alexei Ulyukaev, civil servants refuse even diaries and calendars. Many companies have entered the situation and give postcards. But there are those who do not change old habits.

The basket “from Ivanovich”, a gift for the New Year from the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin, was simply brought and left in the reception room, the federal official says: “Personally, at that moment I was at a meeting in another place.”

In the basket they found:

• Wine - four bottles "Divnomorskoye Manor" (two - white and two red);
• Mandarins - six pieces;
• Sales from game - 2.5 kg.

The average cost of a bottle of guilt "Divnomorskoye Manor" from Abrau-Durso in retail is about 3 thousand rubles. Pavel Titov, chairman of the Board of Directors of Abrau-Durso, says that Rosneft really has been giving baskets with this wine for several years, but there is no special agreement between the companies. With a maximum discount for wholesale, a bottle of wine can cost a “Rosneft” of 1.55 thousand rubles, says Titov.

Sausages can be made of meat that Sechin itself mines. In 2015, the Forbes magazine wrote that when the head of Rosneft does not have Abrall at work, he is happy to hunt a large beast, in Russia it is most often a deer. So that the trophies do not disappear, sausage is prepared from game.

The widespread fame of the basket with the sausage “from Ivanovich” was acquired after the case of Alexei Ulyukaev. In the decoding of the audio recording of the negotiations of the former minister of economics with Sechin, you can hear how the head of Rosneft gives an instruction to prepare such a basket for Ulyukaev. Having received gifts, Ulyukaev was detained by the FSB operatives - he had a basket with sausages and a bag, in which $ 2 million were discovered. Ulyukaev, during the process, insisted that he expected to see wine in the bag. Last week, the court sentenced him to 8 years of strict regime. Protection disputes the verdict in the Moscow City Court.

“And what should I do about it? Send back? - Another federal official complains, who also received a basket as a gift this year. - Write a service note for the authorities and put it in the management of business? But this is a gift from Sechin. " “Both laughter and sin,” he summarizes.

“Give me the hand of at least one person who refused our gift, I will look in his eyes,” Mikhail Leontyev, a representative of Rosneft, told the Bell, breaking the journalists and Ulyukaev. He also claims that the contents of the gifts “cannot be knocked out at the cost, because these goods are not for sale”, and the wine has an “high cost”.

Alexandra Prokopenko (for The Bell), Anastasia Yakreva