Precious unfinished. How to launder the funds in the Mariinsky Palace
Mariyinsky Palace is under renovation for a decade, every year it costs millions of budget funds. He turned into the “building monster” relentlessly devours the budget. This is stated in the plot of Money.
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The people’s Deputy Igor Lutsenko calls this unfinished “trough, with which you can just write off hundreds of millions of dollars per year”.
Architectural monument checked in the fall. A detailed report with the number of violations is more than a hundred pages, it was prepared back in November and immediately had to transfer to law enforcement agencies. The facts that during its investigation had revealed government auditors, evidence of embezzlement of budget funds tens of millions. For 3 years in the pockets of the builders have settled more than 30 million. Edition of the program “Groshi” was given this document is part of a classified audit of the accounting chamber from one of the senior state auditors.
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According to the document, was the inflated cost of equipment for the reconstruction – on more than one million hryvnias. The use of budget funds in violation of state standards – more than 9 million hryvnias. In General, the experts found that had high labour costs and purchase prices (where inventory bought eight times more expensive than the market price), at the same time, some works that have written off the money, was not fulfilled.
Victor Gleba, an expert in the field of urban planning and former Deputy chief architect of Kyiv, said that after the war in 1949, the reconstruction of the Mariinsky was worth a lot less “than what is now 10 years old paint and glue”.
Results: after ten years of renovation work nearing completion at the right wing and the hall of awards of the Palace. Here work is 80% complete. On this positive ends: in just 10 years, made only a quarter of the work.
At the same time, the cost of repairs is growing by leaps and bounds. In 2016, the restoration has cost nearly half a billion hryvnia.
In addition, together with the construction and design work immediately, and purchased furniture that eventually soured. Well as years, gathering dust in warehouses and expensive equipment.
Therefore, the Mariinsky Palace was turned into an ordinary corrupt trough, according to the findings of the keepers. The end of the work is again transferred from the promised 2017 to 2019.