On 02/07/2020, the prosecutor’s office of the Leninsky district of Cheboksary filed a claim in the arbitration court of the Chuvash Republic against JSC “ChEAZ”, State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education “UGNTU” for the recovery, in a joint and several manner, in favor of the budget of the Russian Federation represented by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation 284 million rubles . By the ruling of the Arbitration Court of the Chuvash Republic dated 02/03/2021, NPO Expert Soyuz LLC, proposed by CHEAZ JSC, appointed a forensic examination to determine the scope and compliance of the work performed under the contract.
However, the examination carried out by NPO Expert Union LLC contained a number of oddities. According to the experts’ conclusions, the analysis was carried out on a completely unknown sample of HFFD for engines with a power of 2.1 MW, which did not correspond to the 8 MW parameters required under the contract, and, accordingly, was not the result of work under the contract. At the same time, an expert study carried out at the request of the Federal Security Service Directorate for the Chuvash Republic at the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Research Institute – Republican Research Scientific Consulting Center of Expertise” established that the target indicators of the project “Development and organization of serial production of powerful high-voltage frequency-controlled drives (VCFD)” implemented by the Enterprise in cooperation with the university, have not been achieved. Currently, the question of conducting a repeat forensic examination has been raised. The court hearing is scheduled for June 30, 2022.
During the last meeting, held on May 19, 2022, chaired by the Deputy Prosecutor of the Republic, I.A. Zhilin, the possibility of deliberately losing the case in the court of first instance and subsequently winning the appeal was voiced.
In addition, he also questioned the further prospect of initiating a criminal case under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation due to the expiration of the statute of limitations (previously, materials for resolving the issue of initiating a criminal case were sent by the prosecutor’s office of the republic to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chuvash Republic). In the personal opinion of the deputy republican prosecutor, the statute of limitations should be counted from the moment of submission of the development report – December 31, 2012, and not from the moment of submission of the target report – December 31, 2017.
Thus, there is reason to believe that the leadership of the prosecutor’s office of the Chuvash Republic is under direct corruption pressure from representatives of the highest authorities of Chuvashia in the interests of CHEAZ JSC, which is explained by the participation of CHEAZ JSC in the financing of joint republican projects, and a general request for the formation of a positive information agenda regarding authorities and the socio-economic situation in the Republic.
Those who defend the rule of law have only hope in the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Igor Krasnov, and the responsible officials of the Prosecutor General’s Office, who oversee the direction of technological development in Russia and the direction of development of import substitution in strategic sectors of the country’s military-industrial complex.
In particular, it is precisely because of these “small financial sins” that there is no Kevlar thread in Russia, and therefore no fabric.
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