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Part two. A story about who and how the Kremlin restaurateur feeds

Editorial "Project" , March 28, 2019

“I really love mushrooms with potatoes, because in the theater where I used to live, I very rarely visited, even, I admit, there were no mushrooms with potatoes for lunch. Sometimes the mice pulled us sustained sausage from the buffet to the attic and we made a very tasty soup out of it, "

- recalls the protagonist of the fairy tale "Indragusic", the author's spelling is preserved. Its author is businessman Evgeny Prigozhin. He wrote and published a book as a gift to his children and even gave an interview about it in 2003.

However, in life from lunch, the stomachs are not always “quite rumbling”, as the heroes of the book said about this. In December 2018, Prigozhin Condord was in the center of the scandal due to massive disease with dysentery of Moscow preschoolers. According to the press secretary of President Dmitry Peskov, the situation "was promptly settled, the source (infection-" project ") was determined and stopped."

The Project decided to check whether the problem of poor -quality food for companies that occupy 90% of the market only for school food is so atypical, RBC wrote. Close to Prigozhin, organizations also feed pupils of kindergartens, patients of hospitals and sanatoriums, military, rescuers.

To do this, we studied the array of arbitration trials in eight years: they reflect all the disputes of customers with food suppliers, which are part of Prigozhin's informal conglomerate. It turned out that firms feeding the military, schoolchildren and president receive complaints about the quality of food from year to year. And the problem is not only not “stopped”: despite the claims, firms related to Prigozhin win the courts and continue to receive state orders.

Chef and cook

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Part two. A story about who and how the Kremlin restaurateur feeds

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Part is fourth. Investigation of how Russia is involved in the Civil War in Libya

Twenty -two problems

“We use high -quality products and cook dishes in the same way as you are at home, but on an industrial scale. We comply with all sanitary and hygienic norms and use the safe technology of cooking and cooling, ”the“ nutrition philosophy ”“ Concord ”sounds.

It is with the name of this company that the catering business of the presidential chef is associated. However, the group of companies, according to the press related to Prigozhin, includes many more legal entities. We studied the arbitration affairs of 22 companies. The list was compiled on the basis of investigations of journalists and activists who were dedicated to the participation of Prigozhin in public procurement.

22 companies in journalistic investigations

Profit for 2017, million rubles, according to the SPARK system

AVK

154.4

AVK owns the company MTA, in which Elena Lyashun belongs. She was the general director of Concord Plus (Evgeny Prigozhin previously owned it).

Agate

-390.4

The founder is Prigozhin’s love, the current owner of several businesses, whose founder was previously Evgeny Prigozhin.

Azimuth (formerly Medstroy)

Medstroy had a general residence permit with Concord, and among its founders were Violetta Prigozhin and Taisiya Kryazhev, who also formed the founder of two companies that previously belonged to Evgeny Prigozhin himself.

Almir

15.4

Former founder - Gulnar Osmanova - also owned Palmyra LLC. Palmyra was previously owned by Concord Management and Consulting, owned by Evgeny Prigozhin, and Lakhta, who) he was the founder.

ASP

-141.4

Former ASP co-owner Ekaterina Knorring was a co-owner of the Perekrestok company, the founder of St. Petersburg Culinary, whose ex-director Vitaliy Filipenko received a business partner for Prigozhin for Megalin Maxim Moskalev.

Home Line

327.6

It has one phone with Almira, which is associated with Palmyra through the common founder Gulnar Osmanov. Palmyra previously owned “Concord Management and Consulting” belonging to Prigozhin, and Lakhta, with which he was the founder. In 2016, the “main line” indicated as a contact e-mail, the domain name of which was designed for Medstroy (later changed the name to Azimuth), which was headed by Violetta Prigozhin

KDP-coetering

3.3

“Moscow Schoolboy”, “Schoolboy-Yuz”, “KDP-Ketering” registered at one address. "Schoolboy-Yuz" has a common phone with AVK and "Prodfutservice"

Preschool power supply plant

42.8

“Moscow Schoolboy”, “Schoolboy-Yuz”, “KDP-Ketering” registered at one address. "Schoolboy-Yuz" has a common phone with AVK and "Prodfutservice"

Power plant "Concord"

151.5

Evgeny Prigozhin is indicated by the Director General.

Concord M.

144.4

Evgeny Prigozhin - Founder

Concord Management and Consulting

110.1

General Director and owner - Evgeny Prigozhin.

Concord with

0.065

The company's phone coincides with AVK, Concord M, MTA, MTC, Pishchevik, Prodfutservice, SP Concord.

Mercury

103.9

It has one phone with Megaline, whose share is owned by Lakhta, where Prigozhin was the founder.

Moscow schoolboy

50.2

“Moscow Schoolboy”, “Schoolboy-Yuz”, “KDP-Ketering” registered at one address. "Schoolboy-Yuz" has a common phone with AVK and "Prodfutservice"

MTC

51.0

The founder is Alla Petrova, her company Litera is owned by the company Business Prozect, the founders of which were previously Alfa and Beta, which belonged to Evgeny and Lyubov Prigozhin, and which, in turn, was associated with Megaline LLC, which is owned by Lakhta, where Prigozhin was the founder.

Public catering

23.3

The founder is Pavel Arnold, his company is the company of the company Business Prostect, the founders of which were previously Alfa and Beta, owned by Evgeny and Lyubov Prigozhin, and which, in turn, was associated with Megaline LLC, whose shares own Lakhta, where Prigozhin was the founder.

Food

28.0

The company's phone coincides with AVK, Concord M, MTA, MTC, Concord C, Prodfutservice, SP Concord.

Prodfutservice

11.2

Former owner Elena Lyashun was also the general director of Concord Plus (Evgeny Prigozhin previously owned it).

Restaurant -Service Plus

-50.1

The branch of the company in the Khabarovsk Territory is led by Irina Mukhina, a former general director of several companies Prigozhin.

Social food "Center"

17.4

On the website of Lyceum No. 1501, an open -access posted a letter to the head of “Social Power Center” in the name of the director of the educational institution: it says that the company attracts “Concord” as a co -executor in the state contract with the lyceum.

St. Petersburg Culinary

48.8

The ex-director of the company Vitaly Filipenko received a business from Prigozhin’s partner Maxim Moskalev-Ruskoplekhks.

Schoolboy-yuz

10.9

“Moscow Schoolboy”, “Schoolboy-Yuz”, “KDP-Ketering” registered at one address. The company also has a common phone with AVK and Prodfutservice

Some companies have a direct connection - it is the founder. Others are only indirectly related to the billionaire: addresses, phones and names of the founders coincide with Prigozhin firms. Most of these companies are profitable.

The first complaints of customers to the quality of food appeared in the texts of decisions in 2011. According to the calculations of the “project” based on the data of the SPARK system, 711 claims were filed against these companies almost 900 million rubles, they put forward oncoming claims (533 lawsuits) for 2.9 billion rubles. Disputes arose with the structures of the Ministry of Defense, Moscow schools, hospitals and other budgetary institutions. Every fourth court of Prigozhin, who acted as defendants, won.

However, in this story, not the amount of cash claims is more important, but what is written in the complaints themselves: what and how the named companies feed children and soldiers.

Foreign body

The first type of violations is inedible ingredients. Schoolchildren and the military found worms, cockroaches, human hair, plastic bags in their dinners. The products were periodically rotten.

“Photo materials and a note of students 7“ In ”class interviewed in the presence of a teacher-psychologist were attached to the act, according to which at dinner after 5 lesson at 13 hours. 45 min. A small worm in rice was found in a portion of the second dish, ”such a claim was drawn up in Moscow school No. 166 in December 2016. At school No. 718 they found a fragment of a plastic bag in pancakes in the summer of last year. These schools have the same contractor - LLC Moscow Schoolboy.

“Moscow School” “became famous” recently - after the video on the Navalny.live channel. There, Natalya Shilova, who introduced himself as a former power controller, told what violations she encountered during the time of work in this company. The video claimed that photographs of spoiled food and conditions for its storage and preparation were personally made by Shilova during work in the company in 2017. However, later it turned out that one of the photographs was published on the Internet in 2011. Including she confirmed that in 2016 at school No. 166 they found a worm in food: “A journal of finished products is being held on each catering unit, where the commission should check the quality of the products given. The rice that was given to the children met all the standards, according to the finished product magazine, it was suitable. Only the worms found in this rice are not clear why they were fit. ” The executive director of the company Nikolai Fateev rejected the accusations and removed the alternative version of the warehouse excursion, the person does not call himself a video, but the RIA Fan news agency, which is associated with Prigozhin, claims that it is the video that is precisely Fateev.

“Moscow Schoolboy” is one of the leaders of the state order among those allegedly related to Prigogine companies. Since 2011, he earned 11.6 billion rubles. The largest income is from the “Concord” power plant, which received orders for 36.3 billion rubles, according to the calculations of the “project” based on these SPARK systems.

In 2016, cockroaches in porridge with sausages and human hair in buns for breakfast were also found in the dining room of the Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School, which was served by the Restaurant -Service Plus. The structures of the Ministry of Defense sued the company 325 thousand rubles. With Concord, the organization had common managers and phones . In May 2017, arthropods were found in the dining room of a military unit in Yaroslavl , in February the hair was found in stewed beef when checking the dining room of the military academy of radiation, chemical and biological protection in Kostroma. LLC MTC, MTC was responsible for food for the power supply with another social catering operator - “public catering”. According to the “present tense”, the latter owns a helicopter, which journalists called “personal airy taxi of Prigozhin and his family”.

They complained about the supply of rotten carrots at Moscow school No. 199 in 2015. Because of this, the children did not receive a carrot salad with raisins for lunch. For the supply of food, a schoolboy-yuz, another major recipient of the state order among the studied companies, was responsible. The company earned 28 billion rubles on public procurement, calculations are based on SPARK data; The company was associated with the registration address supposedly affiliated with Prigozhin companies, as well as the participants of the food market and former employees surveyed by RBC.

Infection to choose a customer

The second type of violations is infected food: a set of bacteria and infected products are diverse.

In August 2018, several dozen soldiers of military unit No. 02511 were poisoned in the Leningrad Region, the prosecutor's office of the Western Military District recognized. The audit was carried out after the appeal of the human rights organization "Soldiers' mothers of St. Petersburg." “The Western Military District first refuted, said that only six people were poisoned with mayonnaise. But the prosecutor’s check proved that 30 people were infected with rotavirus, and at the same time they were not properly medical care, ”the organization’s lawyer Anton Shcherbuk told the project. The company “main line” was engaged in the food organization, has one telephone with Almira, whose former founder Gulnar Osmanov also owned Palmyra. “Palmyra”, in turn, previously owned “Concord Management and Consulting” owned by Prigozhin, and Lakhta, with which he was the founder. Another company is connected with Azimuth - through the domain name. In 2016, the “Main Line” selected the employees and indicated the email address with this domain as a contact. The domain is designed for Medstroy - as used to be called Azimuth. According to SPARK, until 2004 it was headed by Violetta Prigozhin.

The dumplings of the “elite”, stored in the warehouse of military unit No. 45752 of Kaliningrad, were infected with Salmonella, an examination showed in May 2016. Salmonellosis in rare cases can lead to death. LLC “St. Petersburg Culinary LLC” was responsible for the organization of food, which is associated with the structures of Prigogine, RBC wrote. In 2017, the structure of the Ministry of Defense tried to recover 695 thousand rubles from St. Petersburg, but only 400 thousand were sued.

A golden staphylococcus was infected with food supplied by Restaurant Plus to the Pyatigorsk military sanatorium in 2016. Vacationers massively fell ill with an acute intestinal infection, the court decision said. Staphylococcus can cause different diseases: from pneumonia to toxic shock. Despite the fact that the infection is serious, the Ministry of Defense estimated the losses of only 69.5 thousand rubles. The ministry spent almost 800 million rubles in sanatoriums in sanatoriums in 2016, all tenders won the restaurant Plus. The company has a branch in the Khabarovsk Territory, led by Irina Mukhina, a former director of Prigozhina, according to SPARK.

The Pishchevik, the company is connected with Prigozhin's structures with common phones, served the canteens of the Suvorov schools. In 2016, cadets of the Tver Suvorov School with Salmonelles were taken to the infectious department of the hospital. Salmonellosis was also found among the workers of the “food” itself.

According to official figures, 30 people were hospitalized at the school, the parents of the victims in Tver believe that the numbers are underestimated 2-3 times.

In 2011, the outbreak of acute gastroenteritis occurred at the Ural State Institute of the Fire Service of the Ministry of Emergencies, which was served by the contractor of Medstroy LLC. 236 people were infected . Medstroy had a general residence permit with Concord, and among its founders were Violetta Prigozhin and Taisiya Kryazhev, who also formed the founder of two companies that previously belonged to Prigozhin himself, according to the SPARK system.

From judicial acts it follows that the intestinal wand in the mentioned companies was found everywhere: in washing, in the hands of workers, in food. Both the military and schoolchildren suffered from infection. It was the intestinal wand in December 2018 that the outbreak of dysentery in the kindergartens of Moscow found out, officials of Rospotrebnadzor found out and sentenced the Concord, however, when the wand was found and what punishment was assigned, the department was not specified in the decision of the department.

In 2016, dangerous bacteria were found in the dining room of military unit No. 43104 in the Kaliningrad region: in February 2016, they were on kitchen utensils. The contractor failed - six months later the situation repeated. In summer, the intestinal wand was found in the buffet of the 1409th naval clinical hospital. For the quality of food, in these cases, "St. Petersburg cooks" was responsible. “Hello, Concord,” they answered when the project correspondent phoned this company, by the phone numbers indicated in the circuit of the contour. Focus when registering the company.

Similar violations were found in 2012 in the dining room No. 48271 in the Trans -Baikal Territory , and in 2017 - when checking part No. 74400 in the Yaroslavl region . Employees of MTC LLC put there poor -quality butter and poorly washed the dishes, it should be from court decisions. The company is connected with two more power operators - the “cerebral” and “public -core”, “food” has common phones with Concord M. Pavel Arnold founder, Pavel Arnold, his company Roli owns the company BUSINESS PROZHEKT, the founders of which were previously Alfa and Beta, owned by Evgeny and Lyubov Prigozhin, and which, in turn, was associated with LLC Megaline, whose shares owned by Lakhta, where Prigozhin was the founder.

Expensible soup "Concord"

The third type of violations is claims to the volume of servings and preparation technology. Sometimes military personnel and schoolchildren received food with a delay, and some portions were not enough.

The Moscow Engineering Lyceum “Intellect” put up the “Concord power plant” for 1.4 million rubles: the company unsuccessfully tried to return the written money through the court, should be from the text of the decision. The customer explained the requirements by the fact that in 2016, the contractor violated the technology of preparing fish meatballs, salads, storage conditions for chic fillets, carrots and oranges, underplained schoolchildren of pea soup and cherry compote. 47.2 million rubles were spent from the budget for the organization of food for three years. Concord has been feeding students in the lyceum since 2016.

The “main line” gave the servicemen smaller portions in 2018, and in the dining room of the military unit No. 52096 in the Moscow region in the dining room they found the expired soup “Concord”. The customer’s claims were partially satisfied.

In March 2018, breakfast of the pupils of Moscow school No. 2000 was torn off : it began almost two hours later, while 28 children did not have enough porridge. The power supply plant was responsible for the organization of food. The court requirements of the educational institution were satisfied. Роспотребнадзор приостанавливал работу «Комбината дошкольного питания» в другой школе: вспышку дизентерии зафиксировали в московском детсаду «Дельфиненок» школы № 492 в феврале 2018 года, проверяющий орган установил, что в фирме есть «нарушения условий хранения пищевых продуктов, технологии приготовления блюд, пересечение потоков готовой продукции и сырья на пищеблоке, нарушения дезинфекционного режима, несоблюдение персоналом правил личной гигиены». Уволили директора школы, завхоза и старшего воспитателя, а компания возобновила работу , писала «Новая газета».

Заработку не помеха

Только в 2019 году к исследованным нами фирмам было подано 29 исков , по данным системы СПАРК. Продолжают судиться со школами, военными и больницами 10 компаний — АСП, МТЦ, «Общепит», «Главная линия», АВК, «Московский школьник», «Школьник-ЮЗ», «Меркурий», «Комбинат дошкольного питания», «Социальное питание Центр».

Самым «напряженным» для компаний стал 2017 год — всего было зарегистрировано 477 исков с их участием в роли истцов и ответчиков , по подсчетам «Проекта», основанным на данных системы СПАРК. Компании «Московский школьник» и «Школьник-ЮЗ» можно назвать лидерами в рейтинге: в этот год они подали 109 исков к московским школам (55 и 54 соответственно). Лидером за весь период среди ответчиков стала компания «Главная линия», получившая 114 исков, среди истцов — «Школьник-ЮЗ», подавшая 123 иска.

Против компаний подано 711 исков общей суммой 899 млн рублей

Источник: СПАРК

Подобные претензии к организации питания могли бы закрыть любой компании доступ к бюджету. Например, в 2017 году жители Волгодонска добились расторжения контрактов на поставку питания в детских садах и увольнения чиновника. Грузовик поставщика — ростовской компании — не доехал вовремя до школ и детских садов, в итоге дети остались без хлеба и горячего. Местных чиновников подозревали в лоббировании интересов ростовских предпринимателей и завышении стоимости контрактов. Волгодонские предприниматели жаловались президенту и генпрокурору.

Но фирмы, предположительно аффилированные с «кремлевским поваром», продолжают получать государственные контракты. Компании, ставшие объектом исследования в этом материале, за все время заработали на госзакупках 139 млрд рублей, посчитал «Проект» , основываясь на данных системы СПАРК. Но часть услуг предоставлялась по субподряду, поэтому реальный заработок больше. Самым прибыльным можно считать 2017 год, то есть тот же, когда было зафиксировано наибольшее число нарушений, — фирмы заключили почти тысячу контрактов на 39,8 млрд рублей. Most of the profits amounted to school food supply contracts.

Суммы госконтрактов, полученные компаниями ресторатора

billion rubles

Общая сумма госконтрактов:

139,32 млрд рублей

Источник: СПАРК

Они поставляют питание не только в школы и воинские части, но и в больницы и детские лагеря. В последние годы у фирм «президентского повара» появились и новые клиенты — МЧС и лагерь «Артек» в Крыму.

Еду в «Артеке» эти фирмы контролируют с 2015 года. «Социальное питание «Центр» заключил с лагерем контракты на 345 млн рублей, а «Комбинат дошкольного питания» — на 3 млрд млн рублей, причем в 2016 году заказчик посчитал, что выберет подрядчика сразу на три года, цена контракта составила 2,5 млрд.

«Артек» не единственный источник дохода для ООО «Социальное питание «Центр» , связь компании с «Конкордом» ранее доказал DailyStorm. Она зарабатывает в основном на больницах и школах — «Проект» насчитал кейтеринговые тендеры на 6,3 млрд рублей. В феврале и марте 2019 года московские больницы выбирали поставщиков питания — крупные контракты получила «АВК», связанная с «Конкордом» телефонами , писал РБК.

Личный состав МЧС России компании, предположительно аффилированные с Пригожиным, кормят с 2010 года. Тендеры выигрывали «Альмира», «Азимут» и «Главная линия».

Оперативной публичной реакции прокуратуры, Роспотребнадзора, Минобороны и московских чиновников на факты, ставшие причиной судебных разбирательств, «Проект» не получил. Головная компания Пригожина «Конкорд» ответила: «По имеющейся в нашем распоряжении информации, „Проект“ является не чем иным как „интернет-помойкой“, не зарегистрированной в России как средство массовой информации и существующей на средства Госдепа США. В связи с этим пресс-служба компании „Конкорд“ сообщает, что общение с адресатом „Проект“ невозможно. Впредь просим не загрязнять данным спамом почту». Другие фирмы, упомянутые в материале, либо не ответили на запросы, либо отказались от комментариев. Работник «РесторанСервис Плюс», услышав про гнилые продукты и тараканов в еде, рассмеялся: «Здесь мы никакие комментарии не можем дать. У нас в ессентукском санатории все хорошо. У нас одни благодарности, жалоб нет».

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