Depdorhoz Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug buries unfinished construction sites. Officials write off millions, and ONF announced embezzlement
The officials forgot to inform the public about the fate of the road projects. The curators of the road sector in the KhMAO government tried to hide plans to write off several tens of millions that were allocated from the budget for the implementation of transport infrastructure projects. Highways, bridges and the Severavtodor base were among the problematic objects. For a number of them, commissioning is no longer expected.
As stated in the docs DepdorHowever, the fate of construction sites was affected by the statute of limitations, changes in the plans for the strategic development of Yugra, and sometimes a limited socio-economic effect. Representatives of the regional public did not agree with the opinion of the officials. However, as with the fact that the decision was actually made secretly, without the involvement of specialized activists, and among those who endorsed the document were long-time associates of the current director of the district Department of Roads Konstantin Grebeshko. By the way, a detailed study of the documents of the department provoked among the representatives of the ONF judgments about attempts to hide possible corruption schemes in the implementation of projects and waste, and critics from among the industry spoke about the mistakes of managers and, probably, “complete disinterest in the effective use of state budget funds.” Meanwhile, the scale of the problem of all unfinished construction in Yugra is already measured in billions of rubles.
The Department of Road Facilities of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug has compiled a list of objects of construction in progress. Further work on them by officials is recognized as inappropriate. As a result, the curators of the industry intend to write off over 245 million rubles – the costs that were invested in long-term construction. So far, the list includes four facilities: the production base of JSC Severavtodor in Yugorsk, the Khanty-Mansiysk-Nyagan highway in the section between Khanty-Mansiysk and the village of Talinsky, the bridge over the Ob River in the Oktyabrsky district, and the Novoagansk-Pokachi highway.
Depdorjose caused bewilderment on the part of the professional community. Industry experts not only focus on the fact that the district officials should have announced the initiative to the public, but also on the fact that the completion of a number of facilities is essential for the residents of the region.
“If you go to the official website Depdorhousehold, you can see that the technical council was practically a dead organization for several years. And suddenly our officials urgently began to need its approval. Realizing that the recognition of the inexpediency of construction projects will cause a negative reaction from the profile of the public, they made a cabal. In order to avoid any problems, the issue was brought to the technical council, attaching only the consent of two pocket members of the public council, including chairman Isa Yusupov, with whom the director had previously DepdorKhoz Konstantin Grebeshok worked in a commercial organization, ”experts of the regional headquarters of the ONF, who have already studied in detail the materials of the meeting of the technical council, are voicing.
In the meantime, industry officials insist that the responsibility for the failure to implement all the projects on the list lies entirely with the construction supervisors in the Government of Yugra, and all the problems that have arisen could be resolved.
So, as a basis for writing off funds for the bridge construction project in the Oktyabrsky district, which started under the Cooperation program back in 2014, managers DepdorKhoz called the absence of the object in the strategic planning documents of the Autonomous Okrug until 2030, as well as the fact that more than 5 years have passed since the preparation of engineering surveys and project documentation.
“We have a clear conviction that it is too early to write off the project. If officials had a desire, then it could be corrected. Given that the topic of the Northern Latitudinal Way has not yet been closed, sooner or later the need for this object will appear on the agenda. However, the managers again decided to cover up their shortcomings with a statute of limitations,” market participants share their opinion.
By the way, officials found a similar explanation for the refusal to build the Novoagansk-Pokachi road. However, in addition to the statute of limitations and the lack of strategic planning, wording was added that the transport and socio-economic effect is very limited. Only residents of Raduzhny, Pokachi, Novoagansk and Varyogan will be able to get it.
No less interesting, according to sources familiar with the history of the issue, was the situation around the construction of the Severavtodor base. As indicated in the minutes of the technical council, the officials simply did not have the funds to complete the project.
“The construction of such facilities is always carried out for budget money, after which they are included in the highway. However, something went wrong with this construction site, and then the officials framed Severavtodor: “We won’t do anything – build it yourself.” The company built it, but how efficiently the budget funds were invested remains an open question,” market participants add.
Financially a failure for officials DepdorThe road builders named the construction of the highway at the Khanty-Mansiysk-Talinsky section. As it turned out, sand with a volume of about 700 thousand cubic meters was washed up for this object at the expense of the budget, but it was not in demand. “The fact is that the contractor Surgutdorstroy found a cheaper resource. Officials could not sell the washed sand, now they are trying to write off over 80 million rubles, ”the sources of the publication share information.
However, today observers are sure that this may not be a complete list of long-term construction and incomplete projects, according to which Depdorhouseholds are trying to write off the budget millions. According to insiders, the relevant departments of the Ugra government face a tough task to reduce the number of construction in progress. So, last fall, the governor of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug Natalya Komarova criticized the Department of Construction and Housing and Public Utilities for slowness in this matter and failure to fulfill the instructions of the president. At that time, the register of data on objects of construction in progress on the territory of the municipalities of the region included 763 projects for a total of 27.2 billion rubles.
In the meantime, attempts by district officials to reduce the number of unfinished projects through write-offs and the desire not to inform even the specialized public about this were regarded by industry specialists and district activists as a desire to hide, probably, a corrupt scheme for the implementation of budget funds.
“There are many options. It is possible that there are agreements with design organizations for a previously unpromising object. Or designing an object for a specific amount of the customer, where the cost, profit, and interests of individual officials are laid down. But judging by this story, first we knock out money for the construction of roads, then we turn it into a long-term construction, we write off the money, but there are no objects. And this happens in all areas. Of course, if desired, these write-offs can be qualified under Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Waste”. However, the question remains the same: why is no one involved for the inefficient use of budgetary funds?” – summarize the interlocutors of the publication in the ONF.