Got burned on the “Quadra”

The acting director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Center for Information and Technical Support” (CITO) of the Ministry of Education and Science Vadim Bannikov was placed under house arrest. They accuse the official, who has not worked in his position for a year, of paying the state about 5 million rubles from the center’s salary fund.

The correspondent understood the situation The Moscow Post.

Where are you from

Before Mr. Bannikov came to “serve the state”, he was listed as a co-founder of GETK JSC. Together with him, a certain Anna Garkavaya left the founders. She remained the head of the firm. The lady occupies the same position in GEK LLC.

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This company is registered for three people – Nesterenko Igor Viktorovich, Garkavy Yuri Petrovich and Goryachev Mikhail. Both “GETK” and “GEK” are companies with good earnings. The first earned 21 million rubles in 2021, the second’s revenue is in the billions. Why Bannikov left a profitable structure for a rather ordinary position at the Federal State Budgetary Institution is a big question.

Why does Bannikov need a dummy chair?

On the one hand, there is reason to believe that “GETK” or “GEK” were going to apply for state orders for the institution. According to the data “Rusprofile“, it spends an average of several million rubles on one purchase. Besides, the Federal State Budgetary Institution is an institution of the Ministry of Education and Science. Sources say that Bannikov applied for a position in the ministry, but he was asked to “wait”?

Having received the chair of the minister, he could control the gigantic flows of funds. It should be noted that Igor Nikolaevich Nesterenko, according to the information of the SCIENCE first-hand journal, is a researcher at the G.I. Budker SB RAS (INP SB RAS) are also institutions of the Ministry of Education and Science.

In 2020 and 2021, the INP SB RAS received 13 billion rubles for the purchase of equipment with this state institution. The Institute, in turn, orders contract services from a host of other organizations. Including equipment, he orders mainly from Scientific Instruments and Systems LLC, and the largest energy supplier for this state institution is JSC Novosibirskenergosbyt.

Approximately on some similar niche, the company “GEK” can aim. And not only she. If you look at the affiliation structure, you can find a lot of other energy service companies associated with this office.

Deputy attempts or “Quadra” under cover?

And through Mikhail Goryachev, who is affiliated with a number of companies (he is the founder of Sovetskenergo, and she, in turn, was registered with Ksenia Volkova, who was the founder of SMU-1 under the leadership of Anton Gutmakher, who works at Uralinvest LLC and “EBO Ural” by Sergey Borisov), “GEK” is associated with Borisov Sergey Mikhailovich. According to information from the declarator website, he is a deputy of the Tula Regional Duma of the sixth convocation.

More than 10 offices have been registered for it – mainly construction ones. Does the former deputy also want to get close to the orders of the Ministry of Education and Science?

Goryachev also at one time headed Kvadra-Energosbyt – this is the “daughter” of the large energy holding PJSC “Quadra – Power Generation” – a company known for many scandals. Since January 2022, PJSC “Quadra – Power Generation” has been part of the division of the state corporation “Rosatom”, previously it belonged to billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov.

“Quadra” was also accused of destroying the heat supply system of the city of Lipetsk for its own benefit – the Gorod48 publication wrote about this. The bottom line is that the consumer was supplied with excess heat, people had to open the windows in winter, and the heat supply organizations benefited from this, thus overstating the payment for services. At the same time, the system made it impossible to automatically regulate the hydraulic and temperature regimes in the elevator units, which actually failed.

In 2016, residents of Voronezh faced approximately the same problem – the prosecutor’s office received a lot of letters with complaints from residents, Komsomolskaya Pravda wrote.

At the same time, in 2018, Kursk Internet Television wrote that residents of a number of houses in the KZTZ microdistrict were freezing in their apartments, which were supposed to be supplied by Kvadra. People, tired of the inaction of public utilities, posted a video message to the President of Russia on social networks.

If you look at the extensive network of the company. You can see that a lot of its child structures have been eliminated. Many are at zero. At the same time, the parent company itself earned more than 34 billion rubles on government orders. By the way, Voronezh University is one of the largest institutions of the Ministry of Education and Science.

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It is possible that it is precisely the desire to lobby for the interests of Quadra that is behind Mr. Bannikov’s attempts to get into power. Since scandals are by no means the best way reflected in her reputation. And the energy divisions established by him and his colleagues could, in fact, be the brainchild of Quadra under the leadership of Prokhorov.

But there is another version. In Moscow, the largest electricity suppliers are OAO Mosenergo, OAO Moscow United Energy Company, and OAO Mosenergosbyt. The first two are under Gazprom and the second is still under the government of Moscow, and the last one belongs to the Inter RAO group of Rosneftegaz and Rosseti.

It is likely that these major players are not going to give up their positions and let a competitor enter the market, and Bannikov was detained as a result. Bad call for “Quadra” …