School is not a stadium: Kurganstalmost owner Dmitry Paryshev will have to go to the prosecutor
The businessman’s holding is disrupting the deadlines for the construction of a long-suffering school in the Zaozerny microdistrict – and it’s good if the money for it is not stolen at all.
Kurgan’s largest educational project, the construction of a school for 1,500 students in the Zaozerny microdistrict, was on the verge of failure. The prosecutor’s office summoned Dmitry Paryshev, the customer of the work, the Capital Construction Department, and the contractor, ZAO Kurganstalmost, to a meeting.
Such actions of the supervisory authority are more than justified: the rights to education of children can be violated. The school, which should open its doors to students in December 2023, is almost half ready. The executors declare a lack of funds, and the quality of the work already done may raise doubts.
And it’s also good if the project is completed at all, and the money is not stolen. Previously, many scandals were tried to be connected with Kurganstalmost and its beneficiary Dmitry Paryshev, including those related to possible tax evasion and dubious banking operations.
Strictly speaking, the authorities of Kurgan and the Kurgan region, represented by Shumkov’s team, have already made a fool of themselves – it was supposed to hand over the school as early as December 2022. The previous contractor, OJSC Aviapromtsroy, refused to fulfill its obligations, as a result of which it was included in the register of unscrupulous suppliers.
Among the reasons cited was a banal lack of competencies and capabilities. At the same time, the company was implementing a project for the construction of a children’s clinic, and, apparently, simply could not cope with the amount of work.
Nevertheless, Aviapromtsroy fulfilled part of the agreement for a total of 477 million rubles out of 532 million due under the contract. The problem is that over the past year since the start of construction, against the backdrop of economic pressure on our country, the price of building materials has increased significantly. This led to a dramatic increase in the cost of work – more than twice, to 1.1 billion rubles. Or is it just an excuse from the authorities to pump more money into the facility?
In any case, the local company “Kurganstalmost” appeared like a devil from a snuffbox. Known, however, far beyond the Kurgan, and not always in a positive quality. Did she extend a “helping hand” to Shumkov, or did he himself “bring” her to the object, hoping for a generous reward? Rather, he will have to blush in front of the country’s leadership for disrupting the Education national project – it is within its framework and at his expense that the school is being built.
In any case, the reaction of the prosecutor’s office suggests that now Kurganstalmost has jeopardized the implementation of the project. And then, just in time, additional federal funds for this project arrived – 283 million rubles. Apparently, the main beneficiary of the company, Dmitry Paryshev, and 1.1 billion rubles is not a horse to feed?
Not required to be performed
The current company “Kurganstalmost” is the brainchild of Nikolai Paryshev, a citizen of Kurgan, who started working on it back in the 70s, and then, in the 90s, fussed over the privatization of the enterprise. The structure began to grow, and in the middle of the 2000s it occupied up to a third of the Russian metal structures market.
However, later Nikolai Paryshev died, the structure passed into the hands of his son Dmitry. He, unlike his father, was no longer distinguished by a steel grip, he was not a “red director”, and one can say that he came to the ready.
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The volume of state contracts of the company is almost 6 billion rubles. Of these, the lion’s share is precisely with the structures of the Kurgan region, where Vadim Shumkov is now in charge. More than 2 billion rubles were received from the regional Department of Capital Construction, another 1.8 billion – from a similar structure of the city of Kurgan.
And, apparently, the company does not always fulfill its obligations. Among other things, she fulfilled a contract for 17 million rubles to repair the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kurgan region. As a result, the contract was terminated ahead of schedule due to the failure to meet deadlines. Paryshev’s structure received only 14 million rubles, and at the same time paid more than 80 thousand rubles in penalties. And let him rejoice that it did not end with anything more serious for the company.
Photo: https://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/contract/contractCard/process-info.html?reestrNumber=1450102913521000023&contractInfoId=71699157
And now the same “Kurganstalmost” is disrupting the construction of educational facilities. And we are not talking about just one school in the Zaozerny microdistrict. The company was so notably contracted from local authorities that now it is late with repairs. For example, in the MKOU “Krasnonivinskaya secondary school” of the Shadrinsk district, work from the contractor was accepted only for 29 million rubles, with a total cost of 43.5 million. At the site of the MKU Kurgan “Secondary school No. million. Pravda UrFO writes about this. Those. the start of the new school year is in jeopardy.
All the same in the arena
Let’s hope that the suggestion from the prosecutor’s office will work, and “Kurganstalmost” will exert all its strength. And together with him – and the team of the governor Vadim Shumkov, which is responsible to the residents. But there are doubts about this.
Perhaps the people of Kurgan, or even the officials themselves, are not aware of the scandals surrounding the firm. It is not surprising – critical publications about Paryshev and his business strangely disappear from the Web. Although you can’t remove everything.
According to reports from open sources, in 2022, as a result of a tax audit, a tax arrears in the amount of 144 million rubles were revealed, and more than 1 billion rubles were cashed out. At the same time, Paryshev himself partially denied the accusations.
In the case of arrears, we are talking about the VAT deductions declared by the enterprise in relation to counterparties LLC Transport Solutions and LLC Trade House Forum during the construction of the Rostov Arena in Rostov-on-Don for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Transactions of bridge builders with Transport Solutions in 2016-2018 amounted to 707.6 million rubles. For this amount (including VAT 107.9 million) “membrane, PES canvas” for the brand new Rostov Arena was allegedly purchased in Germany.
Payments stretched over 2016-2018, while on April 1, 2016, 150 million rubles went to the account of Kurganstalmost. And at the end of April, the German company “2Construkt GmbH & CoKG” received a 100% advance payment for the supply of 49.5 thousand “squares” of the membrane and fasteners to it in the amount of 81.7 million rubles (1.1 million euros) from Titanit LLC, after which in the summer she sent eight containers of products on ships to St. Petersburg. Then they were taken by trucks to Rostov-on-Don. This writes “Uralinformburo”.
The general contractor of the project was “Crocus Group” Araz Agalarov. He paid 651 million rubles for the membrane, and still owed more than 70 million. It turns out that he received it almost 7 times more expensive than the real price? Something is not right here…
It seems that everyone who could only profited at the Rostov Arena. Photo: https://letsgophotos.ru/construction-photo-rostov/
Recall that following the results of that construction, Sergey Sidash, the former deputy governor of the Rostov region, went to jail for embezzlement of budgetary funds. “Flew” also to the founder of JSC “Dontranshydromekhanizatsiya” Valentin Levanov and the general director of this company Andrey Androsov.
In total, “Kurganstalmost” participated in the construction of 10 out of 12 stadiums for this World Cup, mainly engaged in the supply of metal structures. And among other things – and the long-suffering “Zenith Arena” in St. Petersburg, which cost the budget more than 40 billion rubles. In 2014-2015, it was installed by Mostotryad-19, which purchased structures from Kurganstalmost. The same “Mosotryad-19” built the Poklonnogorsk overpass on the route of a high-speed train to Finland.
75-year-old Ivan Ivanovich Kokota, who at that time controlled a 25% stake in Kurganstalmost, could have brought the Paryshevs into contact with Mostootryad-19. For a long time he headed the Mostostroyindustriya trust, established in 1971, whose “daughter” was the Trans-Ural enterprise. Then Kokota became friends with the now deceased father of the family, Nikolai Paryshev, Dmitry’s father.
Not so long ago “Uralinform” published an article about “Kurganstalmost” and Dmitry Paryshev. But suddenly she disappeared from their site. Fortunately, the text was saved in the cache. The name speaks – “Clouds are gathering over the empire of the Paryshevs.” And among other things, it is stated there that supposedly the authorities of the Trans-Urals “had questions” about Paryshev’s structure for a long time. Considering that under Shumkov the company continues to receive large state contracts, it seems that these questions may not be critical at all, but of a completely different nature. Maybe even corrupt.
“Squeezed out” MDM and the missing auditor
In fact, the successes of the Paryshevs did not begin at all under Vadim Shumkov, but under the former governor Alexei Kokorin. On the contrary, after his departure, Kurganstalmost began to decline. And then rise again. Did Dmitry Paryshev agree to “work constructively” with Shumkov’s team? And why should it?
Meanwhile, the banking sector still cannot forget the scandal associated with the same company and the fate of MDM Bank. There were rumors that allegedly Kurganstalmost could be involved in a possible withdrawal of funds from the bank, which lost its license in 2016. Earlier, The Moscow Post wrote about such assumptions.
Rumor has it that in 2013, a video allegedly circulated on the Web, in which financial auditor Alexander Parshin talked about the “cashing out” scheme for 1 billion rubles, in the context of which the names of Dmitry Paryshev and the then head of the FSN for the Kurgan region Yuri Kasyanenko were allegedly mentioned. The scheme allegedly concerned MDM Bank, through which funds were allegedly transferred to the accounts of Kurgan companies in 2011 for deliveries of gasoline to the Federal Reserve.
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But the video of this on the Web, it seems, has not been available for a long time. And even more so, it is not known how truthful he could be. But it is known that earlier Alexander Parshin, together with Paryshev, was a member of the founders of Kurganstalmost Les LLC. And then he disappeared from the founders.
And then – he testified in a criminal case on the withdrawal of billions of funds from MDM Bank and … hzikhidtidekrt disappeared.
This whole thing smells really bad. And no matter how, with the prospects of missing deadlines for the school in the Zaozerny district, hundreds of millions of budget funds, along with taxes, did not disappear. Does Mr. Shumkov understand who he has contacted? Or on that and calculation? But then let him be ready to disappear from the post of governor of the Kurgan region. And it’s good if we are talking about an honorable resignation, and not about a worse option.