Gas leakage sector

Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev holds a meeting on threats of energy security in Makhachkala. Earlier, the head of Dagestan Vladimir Vasiliev said that the region was losing about a third of the gas supplied by him due to theft, and Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko announced the total amount of debt for the consumption of electricity and gas in the North Caucasus.

According to the deputy chairman of the government, it is 120 billion rubles. “Another problem is the failure to fulfill the duties of the regions for debt for resources. In all groups of consumers (in the North Caucasus Federal District - IF) we have "grown up" by 8 billion rubles this year. Now the total debt is 120 billion rubles, it is both light and gas, ” said Mutko at a meeting of the College of the Russian Ministry of Education of Russia. He noted that it is necessary to increase payment discipline.

Vitaliy Mutko / Nikerichev Andrey / AGN "Moscow"

The Deputy Prime Minister did not specify how many of 120 billion rubles. - Debts for gas, and how much - for electricity. In July 2018, Rosseti estimated the debts of the republics of the North Caucasus for the transfer of electricity of 4.8 billion rubles, payment of 4.5 billion rubles. Of which it was expired. According to Gazprom, as of January 1, 2018, the total debt of the regions of the North Caucasus, taking into account the assignment of the regional "daughters" of the company, amounted to 26.9 billion rubles, and without it-85 billion rubles.

Earlier, the head of Dagestan Vladimir Vasiliev said that 11 criminal cases have already been instituted in the region of theft of gas in the region. “Now, Vladimir Anastasov [Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Makhachkala, Gazprom Makhachkala, has been arrested and 11 cases have been initiated, 250 leaders of different levels are held in this case. We will put things in order. In one Karabudakhkent district of 90 hectares of greenhouses, in which only 10% were concluded for gas supply, ”the head of the region promised.

A third of the gas supplied due to theft simply does not reach the consumer. “We have huge debts in Dagestan in Dagestan. We get 3.2 billion [Cub. m] gas [per year]. Stavropol Territory receives 8 billion [Cub. m], they have 1%loss, we have 35%, and this lasted for years, ”Vasiliev said.

Sunset in the city / pixabay.com

In November, Vladimir Putin instructed the government and the Prosecutor General’s Office to take measures, the Prime Minister and Prosecutor General were supposed to report on them until March 1 of this year.

Recall, on January 20, 2019, the Zavodskoy District Court of Grozny, at the request of the Chechnya prosecutor’s office, decided to write off the debts of the population for gas of 9 billion rubles. Then Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Grozny filed an appeal against this decision. After the court decision in Grozny with calls to write off debts to local prosecutors, deputies from Bashkiria, Chuvashia, the Penza region, Samara, Saratov, St. Petersburg and Perm appealed. Recently, the Supreme Court of Chechnya canceled the resonant decision.

In response, Kadyrov once again reminded that gas pipeline networks in Chechnya were “almost completely destroyed” during the fighting, and “gas simply disappeared to nowhere, burned in the giant torches that arose when bombs and shells.” According to him, then "there was completely no opportunity to control gas consumption."

On Wednesday, there were reports that the Board of Directors of Gazprom relocated one of the key top managers of the company to Irill Seleznev: he stops being the head of the department responsible for gas processing, Gazprom Mezhregiongaz, which engaged in gas supplies to the regions, and also leaves the Gazprom board, which has been part of 2002.

Raul Arashukov during a meeting in the Basmanny Court / AGN "Moscow" / Photo: Zykov Kirill

The media associate what is happening to the Arashukov affair. Recall that the senator from the Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov was detained on January 30 right during the meeting of the Federation Council. The operation was attended by the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, who read out a decision to withdraw from Arashukov’s immunity, and General Prosecutor Yuri Chaika, who announced the accusations of two murders, a pressure on a witness and participation in a criminal group. Later it became known that on the same day his father was detained by the Senator, Raul Arashukov on charges of creating a criminal group, which included his son and nephew, and theft of Gazprom’s gas for 30 billion rubles. Then the detention of other defendants in this casefollowed , of all seven of them.