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2023: Charge of conspiracy in the construction of communication lines for 901 million rubles

On March 15, 2023, it became known that the Tushinsky District Court of Moscow would consider the criminal case of a cartel conspiracy at the auction to find a contractor for the construction of communication lines in the Voronezh Region.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, we are talking about a project worth 901.28 million rubles, which is being implemented within the framework of the federal program "Information Infrastructure." It provides for the construction of a fiber-optic communication line, installation of equipment and commissioning work to connect socially significant objects to the Internet in more than 750 settlements of the Voronezh region. 13 companies from Voronezh, Moscow, Belgorod, Kaluga, Volgograd, Krasnodar and Samara took part in the auction in the form of an open request for quotations. The winners were the eight participants who offered the best price reduction ratio. The total amount of the contract was divided between them in equal parts - 112.66 million rubles each.

Collusion was discovered during the implementation of the project under the Information Infrastructure program

However, several contestants were suspected of cartel collusion. According to the investigation, in April 2019 they entered into an agreement limiting competition. Kommersant notes that employees of the GUEBiPK, and MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS FSB Voronezh security forces conducted 24 searches in Voronezh,,, Kurskaya Belgorod Kaluzhskaya Volgograd regions and, as well as in. As To Moscow a result of these events, nine people were detained, who are charged with organizing a cartel with extracting particularly large income at the auction of PJSC "" (p. "In" Rostelecom part 2 of Art. 178 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, up to six years in prison).

The investigation believes that the conspiracy was organized by the technical director of the Voronezh division of Rostelecom Maxim Eremeev. According to the case file, he offered to participate in the auction to four entrepreneurs - the founder of Komstroy LLC Andrei Proskuryakov, the representative of Ikstelkom LLC Alexander Pankratov, the general director of Cross LLC Vladimir Zibrov and the head of Tsentrtelekomstroy LLC Yuri Antipov. Subsequently, several more people joined the cartel: co-founder of SKS Prom LLC Oleg Starchenko, technical director of Smur Firm JSC Vyacheslav Litvinov and representative of Aks Group LLC Denis Marinets. In addition, Andrei Belov, deputy director of the department for organizing the construction of centralized projects of the macro-regional branch of Center, was detained.

All of them, except for Mr. Antipov, who died in 2021, were charged with cartel conspiracy. Former employees of "Rostelecom" are also accused of abuse of office (part 1 of article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, up to four years in prison), Kommersant reports[1]

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