Information spread by media that the facts of multi-million stealing during construction of a football stadium in Saint-Petersburg is incorrect. The Saint-Petersburg Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee indeed has a criminal case launched not only over materials provided by prosecutor’s office and operative services of the Interior Ministry, but based on the results of its own pre-investigating check.
This may concern the fact that investigators got interested one fact among the materials over which they initiated the criminal case (part 4 of article 159 of the RF Criminal Code). On the basis of the data the investigators have, the state contract to build Zenit stadium was signed between the Saint-Petersburg construction committee and Sintez-Sui company in 2006. Later the company was renamed Avant. During execution of the contract the firm concluded a separate contract with a state unitary enterprise which in its turn hired three commercial organizations as subcontractors. These firms set up bored piles, but the cost of one running meter under the agreement with one of the organizations was two times higher than the cost of one running meter of a bored pile under two other agreements. This caused the work having been overpriced by more than 500 million rubles.
Whether this overpricing was a result of stealing or took place by other reasons is the subject of criminal investigation. Construction and technical expert examination, questioning of CEOs of contractor companies, officials of the Saint-Petersburg construction committee and other procedural operations are possible only during investigation. Investigators are going to study not only the materials they already have, but to analyze the data of the recently finished check of Chamber of Accounts.
And only after all investigating operations this or that conclusion can be made. But whatever they are they by all means will be made public.
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