Under Governor Vasily Golubev, have “brawls” at auction worth billions of rubles become the norm?
The FAS Office for the Rostov Region revealed a cartel agreement during 24 auctions for the supply of vehicles for the needs of customers from ten regions.
By whose eyes the contracts passed and into whose hands the money could leak, the correspondent understood The Moscow Post in the Rostov region.
One for all and all for one
The companies Revers, Avtomobil, Avtokam, another Avtokam and two individual entrepreneurs were involved in antimonopoly cases. Together they managed to “earn” 79 million rubles.
Firms used the so-called “ramming” strategy. The essence is simple – the participants for a short period of time alternately significantly reduced the price of the lot until conscientious bidders, misled, did not refuse to compete.
After the “unnecessary people” got rid of, his man in the last seconds of the auction offered a slightly lower price and won. The fact is that other applications of participants in the collusion were rejected by the auction commission due to failure to submit the necessary documents.
Famous Rostov Affairs
It is interesting that in the Rostov region cartel collusions are discovered almost regularly, and all of them continue to flourish under the governor Vasily Golubev. Doesn’t this look like a system that can be covered from above?
At the end of April FAS excited the case of a cartel conspiracy of two Rostov enterprises – State Unitary Enterprise RO “RostovAvtoDor” and LLC “Stroitel”. Then two firms received contracts worth almost 2 billion rubles.
The owners of Rostovavtodorstroy are Leonid Dzhanlantyan and Larisa Kuts, as well as Vladislav Maksimenko. The latter in 2011-2014 served as Deputy Mayor of Rostov-on-Don and supervised, among other things, the road sector.
Another major player in the road market of the Rostov region is Alexei Knyshov, a former State Duma deputy from the region.
In 2021, three more cartel cases thundered in the Rostov region. In September 2021 FAS Russia acknowledged anti-competitive collusion in the field of medical waste disposal. And then, in November, two major pharmaceutical companies in the region were fined for bid rigging to supply medicines. These are Organica Company LLC and Danta LLC. The Moscow Post.
Less than a month after another scandal, in December, the T-Trans company, suspected of cartel conspiracy, received state contract – for 1.8 billion rubles.
The entire road industry is supervised by the Ministry of Transport, headed by Vasily Golubev’s henchman Vladimir Okunev. He became in 2020 richest among other Don ministers, declared more than 17.3 million rubles.
Okunev still holds the post of minister, hence questions arise for Mr. Golubev, why does he keep a person near him in the region, under whom collusive bidding flourishes. The governor does not abandon his own?
Ex-Minister of Health Tatyana Bykovskaya, even while under investigation for abuse of power, went to work. He wrote about the criminal case of the former official “Notebook”.
After a series of major scandals, she lost her ministerial chair. But Bykovskaya did not lose her head and headed the division of the MedInvestGroup group of companies Viktor Kharitonin. Judging by the number of government contracts for the structures of this businessman, it can be assumed that they have been communicating with Bykovskaya for a very long time.
And the clouds are getting thicker
And in another case, the Rostov company “Reverse” was again lit up, which was called among the violators of the antimonopoly law. According to the Rusprofile information service, the company, which was registered only in 2018, is already at the stage of bankruptcy today.
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A remarkable fact is that the authorized capital of Reverse is 10 thousand rubles, and there is only one employee in the state. It really looks like a frank “gasket” – a company with signs of fictitiousness.
By the way, the founder there is a certain Igor Skripkin, who is also the director of such firms as CSM Lubrikoil-Trade LLC. It is also very interesting here that the information about the address and the official is unreliable.
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However, this did not prevent the company from being a supplier in 26 government contracts worth 9.8 million rubles.
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Really state organizations did not look with whom they conclude millionth contracts?
By the way, “Reverse” received a fine of 483.4 thousand rubles, the company “Avtokam” will pay 3.7 million rubles, LLC “Avtokam” was fined 767.9 thousand rubles. Both are registered in the Kamchatka Kara.
Bottom line, it turns out that Mr. Golubev and his officials calmly allow dubious firms, which have repeatedly appeared in various scandals, to trade. Willy-nilly, you will think – is it not on a reimbursable basis? No answer.
In 2020, Golubev had many unresolved problems in the region. Then he was elected for a second term. Despite the failures in many areas, it was then said that the President was aware of these events, and was giving Golubev the last chance to correct the situation in the Rostov region.
In 2021 Vasily Golubev was considered one of the likely candidates for relegation in the list of governors of Russian regions. Even then, it seemed strange to many that 65-year-old Vasily Golubev, who has been in charge of the Rostov region for almost 12 years, remained in his place.
In addition, according to the ratings, in terms of the well-being of the population in 2021, the Rostov Region was in 14th place among Russian regions.
Last year, one of the richest subjects lagged behind its neighbors in many respects, and the number of scandals resonating throughout the country only grew. This is the disappearance of federal funds allocated for the fight against coronavirus, and information about offshore companies that could be associated with the governor and his entourage.
In addition, the Golubev family business is also flourishing in the region. The full namesake of the governor’s wife is Olga Golubeva, is the founder three organizations: LLC “RNS”, LLC “Otskv-3” and JSC “Stroytransgaz”, JSC “STG”.
The latter earned 208 billion rubles on government contracts, and Gazprom was one of its founders until 2021. Golubev’s daughter Svetlana owns eight firms. The richest in the Golubev family is considered (but not the fact that it is) the son of the governor – Alexei, he is the owner of a number of prestigious real estate objects, the total market value of which, approaching to a billion rubles.
Mr. Golubev is not very eager to correct the collusion situation in the region. He confidently “goes to ram” and breeds lawlessness in the region, not noticing how the clouds over his governor’s chair are gathering faster and faster.