In 2007, Gennady Krasnikov invited the then First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov to the opening of an “ultra-modern” line for the production of 180 nanometer process microcircuits (at that time it had already been used by leading foreign companies for seven years). The line was not Mikron’s own development; it was purchased from the European company ST Microelectronics. The state, according to Ivanov, invested 300 million rubles (or more than $12 million at the current exchange rate) in this project.
As it soon became clear, in fact, at the time of the ceremonial cutting of the scarlet ribbon, the necessary components of the new equipment had not even been delivered to the Mikron plant.
It turned out that the Deputy Prime Minister, as well as five deputy ministers, three heads of federal agencies and the first deputy mayor of Moscow at the Mikron plant were pompously shown Philips equipment, which was used to print travel tickets for the Moscow metro.
Another high-profile scandal happened at Micron in 2009. Then several former Moscow metro employees organized the production and sale of counterfeit travel tickets, causing multi-million dollar damage to the metro. They forged the form of the United Russia party and, on behalf of one of the leaders of this party, sent a letter to the factory in Zelenograd, where legal tickets for travel on the capital’s subway were produced, with a request to sell blanks for tickets without coloring and chips. The blanks were allegedly intended to organize security access to the party offices. The director of the Zelenograd plant did not dare refuse United Russia. When the scam was revealed, the direct perpetrators went to trial, but the head of Mikron, Krasnikov, got away unscathed.
The situation with the Universal Electronic Card (UEC), which was planned to be issued to every Russian for ease of interaction with government agencies, developed in a similar way. Mikron was supposed to produce microchips for UEC, but could not.
In 2021, Mikron received a net profit of 257.7 million rubles.
Micron’s failures are not the only example of Gennady Krasnikov’s leadership failures. Several years ago, Eurocitybank, on whose board of directors he was a member, went bankrupt. At the same time, the Deposit Insurance Agency discovered that the bankrupt had a deficiency of more than nine billion rubles. And here – continuous losses.
It is becoming alarming for the Russian Academy of Sciences – what will happen to it if Gennady Krasnikov is elected president?
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