The investigation leading Solovki. Instituted a new “restorers”
As it became known “Kommersant”, the Investigative Committee, the Prosecutor General’s office and the audit chamber launched a comprehensive audit of the use of billions of roubles allocated to the Ministry of culture on preservation of cultural heritage of the Solovetsky archipelago. To deal with violations of the UNESCO-protected objects, the government instructed by President Vladimir Putin. Thus, an investigation of the TFR has revealed embezzlement of about RUB 20 million under government contracts can be a continuation of the scandalous “case of restorers”, which featured government officials and contractors of the Ministry of culture.
A new “restorers” were instituted under part 4 of article 159 of the criminal code (fraud in especially large size) according to the results Prosecutor’s check in Solovki, confirmed to “Kommersant”, the TFR, refusing to give details of the investigation. According to “Kommersant”, this is only part of a comprehensive inspection of construction projects of the Ministry of culture on Solovki in connection with the letter of the presidential adviser on culture Vladimir Tolstoy. He reported to the President about the violations revealed performed the test on the Solovki officials of the Kremlin administration. The President ordered to check the facts and punish those responsible. On the preservation of monuments of Solovetsky archipelago up to 2020 should be allocated 6 billion rubles According to sources, “b”, about half of this amount has already been spent.
Seizure of documents on the restoration of the Solovetsky monastery was held subordinate to the Ministry of culture FGKU Tsentrrestavratsiya and offices of St. Petersburg contractors “Baltstroy” and “Distroy”. FGKU and “Baltstroy”, recall, appeared in high-profile “case restorers” of the Ministry of culture. After the verdict of their former leaders Tsentrrestavratsiya lost functions of the state objects of the Ministry of culture, and “Baltstroy” actually left the market.
Their successors on the Solovetsky construction sites were, respectively, the North-Western Directorate for construction, reconstruction and restoration (SZD) Ministry of culture and “Distroy” St. Petersburg businessman Vladimir Novoseltsev. The volume of contracts of this company with the structures of the Ministry of culture, according to “the files.ru”, in 2014 amounted to about RUB 1 billion, including RUB 826 million in 2016 and 93 million rubles— in 2017. In the office of the contractor information about investigative activities to disclose refused. In the FDD reported that the Directorate works with the “Upstream” six objects of the Solovetsky monastery, claims against the company not has the party to criminal proceedings is not.
Not addressed to militiamen about the objects on Solovki and head in 2016, “Contrastively” Alan Ardasenov. He noted that “the problems of Solovki “Upstream”” be resolved under the “work with claims in the civil legal field.” 5 Feb Tsentrrestavratsiya has achieved in Arbitration court of Moscow the claim about cancellation of the contract with “Upstream” by RUB 65 million, and now charges the company about 20 million rubles., including 17.5 million rubles unjust enrichment. This amount, according to “Kommersant”, featured in the new criminal case. Note that the contract with “Upstream” at the end of last year also terminated the Office of the President, in July of 2017 chose this company as the only supplier for major repairs Executive residence of the head of the RISS Mikhail Fradkov in the former Morozov mansion in Moscow.
Vladimir Putin was informed about the violations identified by conducting the test on the Solovki officials of the Kremlin administration. The President ordered to check the facts and punish those responsible.
Meanwhile, the decision about seizure of documents “Contrastively” is of interest to investigators in the period from 2012 when FGKU was headed by Oleg Ivanov. He was arrested in March 2016, and in 2017 sentenced Dorogomilovsky district court of Moscow one and a half years of imprisonment and released from punishment in connection with his departure. In connection with the new business, according to his lawyer Eugene Zobova, “law enforcement to mister Ivanov has not yet come, and no questions asked”.
At the same time, the Ministry of culture was visited by the Prosecutor’s office came to check the implementation of the program of preservation of cultural heritage of Solovki. The documents related to these projects requested from the Ministry of culture and the chamber of accounts, which in 2014 reported delay and poor quality of restoration works in the Solovetsky objects, culture, design without a cultural-historical examination and inflating the estimated cost of a state contract on 81 million rubles.
Recall that the state of the ensemble of the Solovetsky archipelago, included in the list of world heritage sites, and threatening the monuments of new construction has repeatedly criticized the experts of UNESCO.
Check the restoration and construction works on Solovki coincided with the government’s decision to establish a special Fund for the preservation and development of the Solovetsky archipelago chaired by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Patriarch Kirill. Published on 12 February by the Ministry of culture draft presidential decree States that the Fund will be to ensure the financing of works on construction, reconstruction and capital repair of infrastructure and conservation of cultural heritage objects on Solovki. The head of the Ministry of culture Vladimir Medinsky said that the Fund will Finance the construction and restoration works, not falling under action of the Federal law on public procurement.
Anna Pushkarskaya, St. Petersburg; Nikolai Sergeyev, Yury-Senators