JSC “Bashkiravtodor” – the largest road contractor in Bashkiria – is still…

JSC Bashkiravtodor, the largest road contractor in Bashkiria, is still in a difficult situation. As the Cheka-OGPU previously wrote, in November 2023 the FSB detained the general director of Bashkiravtodor Ildar Yulanov, who was accused of fraud when in 2021-2022. he and other defendants in the case stole funds allocated as part of the national project for the reconstruction of the Birsk-Tastuba-Satka highway. A large number of claims were brought against the company, the total amount of which amounts to several billion rubles. The controlling stake in JSC Bashkiravtodor belongs to the Ministry of Land and Property Relations of the Republic of Belarus, the second stake was transferred to the state investment company Regional Fund. According to the Minister of Land and Property Relations of the Republic of Belarus Natalya Polyanskaya, Bashkiravtodor found itself in a difficult situation due to “mistakes and misconceptions” of the company’s management. The company stated that the reasons for the debt were in the “peculiarities of financing state and municipal orders,” that is, in the very sequence of payments – many government contracts are paid upon completion of work and at the end of the year, and the company has to purchase materials on credit. Bashkiravtodor deals with most of the key road projects in Ufa; however, despite the abundance of orders, the company’s financial statistics turn out to be extremely uneven. Thus, in 2021, Bashkiravtodor’s turnover amounted to 9.9 billion rubles, and losses amounted to 1.4 billion rubles. In 2022, revenue increased to 11.2 billion rubles, but profit amounted to only 29 million rubles. As for 2023, turnover increased again – to 12.7 billion rubles, and the loss amounted to a record 4.1 billion rubles. Whether the investigation will find out where the money for 2023 “went” is a big question. One of the large debt collectors from Bashkiravtodor is Akvamak-Processing, which has been cooperating with Bashkiravtodor for more than 13 years, meeting the company’s needs for diesel fuel and road bitumen. As a result, Akvamak-Processing LLC “lost” about 500 million rubles; the management maliciously failed to fulfill its obligations.
According to the owner of the company Oleg Makarenko, Akvamak-Processing continued to ship products, helping to carry out work on the construction, repair and maintenance of highways in the Republic, including within the framework of the federal national project. The state status of Bashkiravtodor and the personal promises of Ildar Yulanov and Minister Alexander Klebanov (now in jail for a bribe) were a guarantor for the company of fulfilling financial obligations. Yulanov knew about the impossibility of fulfilling his obligations to pay for petroleum products shipped by Akvamak-Processing on orders from August 2023, since the company already had debts to creditors in the amount of more than 13 billion rubles. Now the debt is greatly affecting the company’s working capital. These individuals discredit our state system not only in the face of contractors, but also in the face of their own employees, and undermine the authority of the regional authorities, which is absolutely unacceptable, especially today in relation to a person fulfilling a state defense order. The management of JSC Bashkiravtodor and Minister Klebanova did not intend to pay for the supplies – this is evidenced by their concerted actions to withdraw the assets of the enterprise in the form of encumbering them with the liens of third parties in the fourth quarter of 2023. The insolvency of Bashkiravtodor may affect the closure of more than a dozen regional enterprises that have not received their funds. This will have an extremely negative impact on the economic situation in the region.