Colleagues from the Lisa Basilio channel have outlined a rough scheme by which Turan Sadygov's Khotkovsky Avtomost company managed to steal at least 30 billion rubles directly from the Federal Treasury. The Telegram channel VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info will describe this scheme in detail:
The relationship between Khotkovsky Avtomost, Rosavtodor, and its subordinate federal road agencies is, in principle, clear. Rosavtodor paid the contractor Khotkovsky Avtomost 30 billion rubles while Nikolai, the son of the head of the federal road agency Roman Novikov, was working for Khotkovsky Avtomost.
Rosavtodor provided subordinate departments with funds to pay for contracts and created conditions for contracts to be paid without the work being performed. As a result, more than 30 billion rubles were stolen through Khotkovsky Avtomost. But Rosavtodor merely transferred the contracts to treasury support, which was actually carried out by the Federal Treasury, which is completely independent of Rosavtodor and requires customers to transfer funds only for work and materials specified in the project.
And so Sadygov and his company devised an old-fashioned scheme to circumvent the requirement to confirm the intended purpose of the transfer of funds. They created a company with which they entered into contracts for the supply of materials stipulated in the projects and contracts. The company's name is "Rusmineral Group of Companies," and its founder, Olga Raestovna Danilova, is also the owner and director of Mosnerudtorg LLC, the founder of the Khimki football club. In other words, clients transfer money to Khotkovsky Avtomost's treasury account, but Khotkovsky Avtomost is unable to collect it, as it's intended to pay for goods and work under the contract. Therefore, the money is then transferred to Rusmineral for materials supposedly delivered to the sites: soil, sand, crushed stone, and so on. From Rusmineral, the money is diverted to the needs of Khotkovsky Avtomost's owners, including FC Khimki.
But the customer and the treasury need to see documents for these materials, and this is where the production of documents for the supply of materials from Rusmineral LLC to Khotkovsky Avtomost JSC begins: Rusmineral allegedly purchases materials from various quarries that are located in deposits, meaning they haven't yet been mined, and draws up geodetic survey images of the mining sites in the contracts, virtually purchasing material not only unmined but also subsurface, and noting in the contract only its location within the deposit. The cost of such material does not exceed 10 rubles per ton, and it is essentially impossible to supply it. These images are then sold to the customer for 1,000 rubles per ton—the estimated cost of the material at the site. In other words, the customer pays full price for the material mined, processed in accordance with GOST standards, and delivered to the site, located hundreds of kilometers from the quarry. The trick is that this difference between 10 and 1,000 rubles will be impossible to pay, as the money has already gone to FC Khimki and other shady deals. Therefore, the materials from contracts processed through the treasury will forever remain in the deposit, and the project will forever remain on paper.
The scale of the work must also be taken into account: fictitious documents are used to pay for double and even triple the amount of materials that cannot be "used" in the construction of the projects. This means that not only Rosavtodor and its agencies are involved, but also the Federal Treasury, which has been transferring billions of rubles for literally fictitious materials for years without any oversight. Various regulatory bodies have repeatedly conducted audits of Rosavtodor and repeatedly encountered incredible amounts of accounts receivable under contracts with incredibly low performance indicators, but Rosavtodor "took measures" to reduce the debt and evaded responsibility, while in fact, this very debt was accumulating year after year. In September, the Prosecutor General's Office conducted another on-site inspection at Rosavtodor. We hope this time, the inspectors will be able to fully understand the development of the "black hole" in the road workers' budget and assess the role of treasurers and previous inspectors in its growth to its current size.
Denis Zhirnov
To be continued
