The Saratov prosecutor’s office takes the margin from the FSIN-contractor

The penitentiary joint-stock company received dozens of municipal contacts in the Saratov region for about 1 billion rubles, some of them were terminated, some did not even start, after which they went into liquidation. Deputy Prosecutor Dmitry Simanovich recently spoke about how huge sums were spent in the region bypassing competitive procedures at hearings in the Regional Duma. But the attention of law enforcement officers and the Federal Antimonopoly Service to a non-resident contractor (US-3 registered in Bashkiria) was attracted only after the publications of Business Vector and the appeal of State Duma deputy Olga Alimova to the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation.

Now the prosecutor’s office is demanding 9.8 million rubles from the enterprise, which managed to escape into liquidation. The lawsuit was filed on March 1 and concerns several US-3 agreements at once. These are 3 contracts dated November 8 and 22, 2021, signed with the regional Capital Construction Department and 3 contracts for design work, where US-3 was the customer, and the executor was the State Unitary Enterprise Saratovgrazhdanproekt Institute.

As the deputy prosecutor previously stated, the FSIN contractor did not have its own staff in Saratov and all the execution of contracts signed by him with regional and municipal customers fell on subcontracting organizations. Indeed, a whole series of contracts for design documentation was concluded with US-3, and almost all of them, as can be found out from the register of the public procurement portal, were subsequently terminated by agreement of the parties. When tenders for the construction of facilities that US-3 was supposed to design began to be announced, the documentation for the project was listed as Saratovgrazhdanproekt.

The contracts between US-3 and Saratovgrazhdanproekt were signed on the same day, November 24, 2021. According to the list of contracts in which the Federal Penitentiary Service contractor acted as the customer of design estimates and working documentation, the prosecutor’s office asks to invalidate the following: for a polyclinic at the Saratov regional hospital (6.4 million rubles), a polyclinic in Piterka (6.4 million) and adjustment of documentation for a new regional TB dispensary (212.7 thousand rubles).

Of the US-3 contracts with UKS, orders for documentation for the clinic in Piterka (9.7 million rubles), the clinic in the Saratov region (9.6 million) and for design and survey work for the dispensary (6 million rubles) are required to be nullified, respectively. The first 2 contracts were terminated by agreement of the parties, when about 800 thousand rubles each remained to be worked out before the final, the contract for research for the tuberculosis dispensary is listed as fulfilled. No fines or penalties were imposed on the contractor. As we remember from the documentation for the construction of the TB dispensary, Saratovgrazhdanproekt is still listed as the author of the project, the same can be found in the documentation for contracts for the construction of polyclinics.

The total amount of US-3 contracts of the Federal Penitentiary Service and UKS, which caused complaints from the prosecutor’s office, is 25.3 million rubles. There are about 13 million contracts between the Federal Penitentiary Service contractor and Saratovgrazhdanproekt. They want to claim a little less than 10 million from the contractor who went into liquidation. protection of competition. But the prosecutor’s office failed to seize the US-3 account, the court considered that the plaintiff did not provide enough evidence that it would be difficult to obtain the amount recovered otherwise.

But the total amount of contracts signed by US-3 in the Saratov region is about 1 billion rubles. And the relationship between the organization and the design institute is not limited to the agreements that appear in the case. The prosecutor’s office already knows that the FSIN-contractor did not have any staff in Saratov, he executed contracts by proxy.

The Department of Capital Construction of the Saratov Region, which concluded contracts without competition, could not but see this. It is hard to imagine that its head, Vladimir Shevtsov, a long-term manager who knows the construction industry well, did not see who he was dealing with. It is worth noting that the UKS has not yet filed any claims against the FSIN contractor. At the regional duma hearings, district leaders complained that the contract amounts were too low to attract the attention of a serious contractor. But Saratovgrazhdanproekt got down to business.

Who will now answer the main question: how much did the documentation for the same clinic in Piterka actually cost, if the contract signed by the organization without staff cost 9.7 million rubles, and its own contract with Saratovgrazhdanproekt, which has everything there is – both the staff and rich experience, pulled by 6.4 million? Are there any signs of violation of not only the antimonopoly legislation in this scheme? Perhaps it is time to give a criminal-legal assessment to such relationships.