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Megaline who was under investigation. Putin's restaurateur will build a military base on the border with Ukraine

The multibillion-dollar Russian military cleaning market in currently mainly divided between several large players. However, as an investigation conducted by RBC journalists showed, at least half of the concluded contracts for cleaning services were signed with companies that are in one way or another connected with the Concord group, owned by the famous St. Petersburg businessman, restaurateur Evgeny Prigozhin.

It is known that today the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation concludes contracts for cleaning services for its facilities independently. This has been happening since November last year. Over the past months, the military department has held about 30 auctions, the total amount of which was about 30 billion rubles. Compared to the value of the contracts signed at one time by the notorious Slavyanka company, the value of the contracts has increased almost 10 times. Let us recall that Slavyanka has been managing the housing stock of the Military Ministry, and has also provided services in the housing and communal services sector since 2010. The scope of the company's activities is currently gradually declining.

At the same time, it should be noted that not all tenders announced by the Ministry of Defense have already had contractors identified. Winners were announced and corresponding contracts were signed for only 11 of the competitions announced by the Ministry for the specified period. The total amount of contracts here amounted to 14.2 billion rubles. The winners were also determined in nine more competitions worth 5 billion rubles. However, contracts with these companies that won the tenders were either not concluded, or information on them is simply not available on the government procurement website.

The contracts put up for auction differ significantly in their value. The amount here can vary from 2.7 billion to 92 million rubles. The price is determined mainly by the size and type of premises served. While the services themselves, specified in the contracts, are almost the same. The duty of the cleaners is to wash or vacuum the floors in the premises five times a week. They should also rub furniture and metal interior parts with a special polish and wipe down radiators at least once a week. Windows are washed seasonally, at least twice a year - in autumn and spring. In addition, the cleaning company’s responsibilities include maintaining cleanliness in the surrounding areas, whitewashing trees, mowing grass in summer and removing snow in winter.

The bulk of the contracts were concluded for a period from July of this year to the end of next 2016. The cost of the contract also includes the cost of purchasing the necessary consumables, including soap and household chemicals, toilet paper and other things. On average, according to the contract, cleaning of military department premises is estimated at 20 to 30 rubles per square meter. A meter of adjacent territories costs from 2 rubles.

Military units, the cleaning of which is provided for by concluded contracts, are located in different regions of the country. In addition, within the framework of one contract, the geography can be quite wide. For example, according to one of the agreements concluded by the Ministry of Defense with the winner of the tender, the cleaning company undertakes to clean the airfield of the Air Force Academy in Armavir, and at the same time - facilities in Nizhny Tagil and Syzran.

In addition to cleaning directly in the barracks and on the territories of military units, the winners of the competitions, according to the contracts concluded with them, will also need to clean the military educational institutions, in rear headquarters and in military sanatoriums. At the same time, it is possible that the list of facilities of the Ministry of Defense given in the competition documentation is not complete, and the list of facilities for maintenance will be expanded.

The list of the first winners of the competitions included 11 companies. The favorite of last season was the Megaline company, which at one time accounted for more than half of the latest contracts of Slavyanka LLC. There is reason to believe that this company is connected with Concorde. The first contract concluded by the Ministry of Defense with Megaline was worth 92 million rubles. In addition, the company won another tender - for 2.2 billion rubles. As RBC journalists who conducted the investigation found out, in addition to Megaline, at least three more companies that won the auction are in one way or another connected with Yevgeny Prigozhin and his holding company. These organizations are not directly associated with Concord, but the people who own them work or previously worked in structures associated with the holding.

For reference: On the Concord company website there is a list of restaurants owned by the holding. Of these, 10 are located in St. Petersburg, 7 in Moscow and 2 in Sochi. In addition, the group of companies owns the so-called Eliseevsky store in the center of St. Petersburg and a chain of stores called the Chocolate Museum. Evgeny Prigozhin, who owns the Concord group, is also a famous St. Petersburg restaurateur. This person has connections in the highest echelons of power. At one time, Forbes reported that the guests of his restaurants were influential world-class politicians and even the presidents of Russia, the USA, and France - Vladimir Putin, George Bush, Jacques Chirac.

Since 2012, structures controlled by Yevgeny Prigozhin have received a number of important state and near-state contracts. Thus, the Concord M company, also owned by Prigozhin, is currently one of the main suppliers of food for the Presidential Administration. The main cook of most Moscow schools was the Concord food plant. According to Forbes, two-year security contracts Russian army In 2012, subsidiaries of Concord entered into a food supply agreement with Voentorg.

One of the largest transactions concluded in June of this year was the contract between the Ministry of Defense and Prometheus LLC in the amount of 2.7 billion rubles. The company was registered less than a year back – 09/16/2014 She participated in the competition for the second time. The first - for the contract for the maintenance of engineering communications of the Vishnevsky Hospital, Prometheus LLC lost. The company managed to win the second tender and sign the corresponding contract. Now she will have to provide cleaning services at more than 50 universities of the Ministry of Defense with a total area of 22.2 million square meters. meters, as well as 51.8 thousand hectares of adjacent territories located in different parts of the country.

According to SPARK, the owner of Prometheus LLC is Elena Ivanovna Lyashun, former director of Concord Plus, part of the Concord group. Elena Lyashun still works at Concord. When journalists managed to contact her, Ms. Lyashun stated that she knew nothing about the Prometheus company and could not say anything about its activities; she did not actually manage the company, but was only legally listed as its owner. Prometheus's competitor in the competition was only one company - Spetsresurs. Journalists were unable to obtain any details about the activities of this company. The press service of Concord Catering also refused to answer questions about a possible conflict of interest.

A large contract worth 2.6 billion rubles. was concluded with the Ruskompleks company, registered on September 15, 2014, only 1 day earlier than Prometey LLC. The former general director and owner of this company is Maxim Vyacheslavovich Moskalev. The head of the Megaline company was also called. The owner of Ruskomplex and its management were replaced on June 11 of this year. However new owner Vitaly Filippenko turned out to be associated with the ASP company. This company won another large “sanitary” contract worth 2.7 billion rubles. This was the company’s only contract concluded with a government customer. At the same time, the second contender was the same “Megaline”. Vitaly Filippenko is also the owner of the St. Petersburg Cooking company, established by Perekrestok LLC. At one time, the owner of Perekrestok was Ekaterina Knorring, who also owned the ASP company.

Thus, more than half of all completed tenders for total amount 10.3 billion rubles were won by four companies - Megaline, Ruskompleks, Prometey and ASP, with which the Ministry of Defense entered into relevant contracts. As the lawyer explained law firm Pepelyaev Group Elena Sokolovskaya, who heads the Antitrust Regulation practice group, formally does not have a ban on the participation of affiliated persons in certain tenders. This also applies to those cases where these persons find themselves the only participants tender. The fact that companies are affiliated does not in itself mean a cartel agreement between them. The existence of such collusion must be proven to the antimonopoly service by studying and assessing the behavior of participants in the said tenders. However, according to Elena Sokolovskaya, the Federal Antimonopoly Service often uses indirect evidence, such as the lack of competition during the competition or the passive behavior of participants.

In terms of the number of contracts at the last auction of the Ministry of Defense this season, the leader was the Flagman Clean company, which managed to win four contracts with the Ministry of Defense worth 3.2 billion rubles, which amounted to 20% of all defense department purchases related to cleaning services. One of these contracts was not published. The company, in particular, concluded an agreement worth 263 million rubles. for cleaning and maintenance until 2017 of the so-called military camp No. 1 - Armed Forces Logistics Headquarters Russian Federation, which is located at the address: Moscow, Bolshoi Kozlovsky Lane, 6.

In addition to the actual cleaning services and maintaining the sanitary condition of facilities, the Flagman Clean company also provides maintenance of barracks. This type of service is provided for in two of the contracts signed with the Ministry of Defense. Their total amount was 1.3 billion rubles. Other clients of Flagman Klin include Rostelecom and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. Contracts worth about 316 million rubles were concluded with these organizations. The company was founded in mid-2013. Its only owner, according to SPARK, is Elena Igorevna Gruzova. The company is new and little-known on the market, however, it is possible that there is a connection between Flagman Clean and the leader of the cleaning market, Fasilikom, which operates under the well-known brand Clean Light, according to RBC.

Such a connection is indirectly indicated, for example, by the email address given in some purchases as a contact address and ending in @facilicom.ru. The director of the Flagman Clean company, Lyudmila Khanina, is the former head of the Mobile Solutions LLC company, together with Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Chernysheva. This is the name of the former general director of the ChS Region company. And at one time it was led by the current co-owner of the Fasilikom company, Elena Apsit. Lyudmila Khanina was at one time the director of the Client-Service company. And its parent company, Personnel Resources, participates in the authorized capital of the Staff Management company. The address of this company is the same as that of Fasilikom.

Journalists managed to obtain from the Fasilikom company Ms. Khanina’s email address, which ended in @mobile-solutions.su. The site mobile-solutions.su itself is the Internet page of Mobile Solutions LLC. In particular, it states that the company has been providing comprehensive real estate services for 10 years. According to an employee of the Fasilikom company, Khanina runs the mobile service. At the same time, the company’s press service stated that such an employee does not work for them at all, and “Flagman Klin” is in no way connected with their company, so there is no conflict of interest here.

If we delve deeper into the connections of the Aktiv-Reserve company, another participant in the tender, we can also conclude that the company has some connection with Fasilikom. The company participated in four purchases and in all cases was the only competitor to Flagman Klina. She herself has not won a single competition. The legal address of this company coincides with the legal address of Fasilikom, only the office number differs. The company's contacts offer an email address ending in the one we already know @facilicom.ru. Meanwhile, the press service of Fasilikom and regarding the Aktiv-Reserve company say that it has nothing to do with them.

The indirect connection of three other contractors of the Ministry of Defense is also easy to trace if desired. These are the companies “Constructor of Cleanliness”, “ Polar bear" and "Millennium wedge". Thus, the owner of the Millennium Clean company, Larisa Vladimirovna Mayevskaya, also has a share in Client-Service LLC, the director of which was the head of Flagship Clean, Lyudmila Khanina. The Polar Bear and Millennium Clean companies are registered at the same address. Elena Atakisheva manages not only Constructor of Cleanliness, but also LLC Eden. The former owner of this company, Alexander Osokin, at one time headed the ARGO company, which is currently headed by Ekaterina Konnova, director of the Millennium Clean company, and so on. Journalists were unable to obtain clarification from the bidding companies themselves using the contacts listed on the procurement website.

Since 2010, Slavyanka began holding tenders for the right to provide “cleaning services” to the army - cleaning of premises and territories, sanitization, waste removal, etc. In 2010 and 2011, the company, according to data from the Oborontorg system (which conducts procurement for the needs of the Ministry of Defense), put up for auction 12 contracts for such services totaling about 3.5 billion rubles.

The first contracts in 2010 were concluded by Slavyanka for several months with the possibility of extension, then for one and a half to two years, recalls Yuri Ryabichev, president of the Association of Russian Cleaning Companies, director of the Primex group (it received several contracts in 2010-2011). In the first months, he recalls, it was not even clear exactly what area the contractors needed to clean. “Nothing was calculated, since before this the Ministry of Defense had never carried out accurate measurements of the areas being harvested, and this amounts to millions of square meters,” he says.

In 2011-2012, the Ministry of Defense became the country’s largest customer in the cleaning market, says Ryabichev. “Initially, everything looked quite profitable,” he recalls. But soon prices dropped from 20-30 rubles. per square meter up to 15-20, and in some cases up to 12 rubles, that is, below the break-even level, he continues. “But the main thing is that Slavyanka gradually began to pay with long delays. People were sitting without wages,” says Ryabichev. “It’s a very bad situation: it is impossible to suspend work under these government contracts, while government customers remain in debt to contractors for years of work, some of them have not received payment for more than a year,” adds Eduard Apsit, owner of Fasilikom Management Company (engaged in cleaning services under the Clean Svet brand ").

“We are not working [with Slavyanka] under new contracts and have not even tried to participate in them,” says RBC’s interlocutor at another company that also won the contract in 2010-2011. “We are not interested in this customer […] The relationship has broken down.” When asked to explain the reasons, RBC’s interlocutor replies: look at the situation with the old contracts.

Judging by the database of arbitration cases, the number of claims from contractors against Slavyanka in last years has grown significantly: if in 2012 the company was a defendant in 165 cases, then in 2013 it was already 1030, and in 2014 - 1757 (for more details, see the chart).

RUB 97.6 billion — Minister Shoigu estimated Oboronservis’s debts to contractors at this amount in the summer of 2014.

In addition to all the problems, Oboronservis, and with it Slavyanka, in 2012 found themselves at the center of an apparatus-corruption scandal, which later led to Serdyukov’s resignation from the post of Minister of Defense. In October, a criminal case was opened regarding fraud with the property of Oboronservis. A month later, investigators opened a criminal case based on violations at Slavyanka: allegedly, budget money was stolen during the implementation of government contracts (including for cleaning). Nine people were charged in this case, including the then general director of Slavyanka, Alexander Elkin.

Having checked the old contracts, we found signs of a “pyramid with a clear smell of corruption,” said Oleg Belaventsev, appointed director of Slavyanka after Elkin, in 2013 in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets.

Who replaced the contractors of the Serdyukov era?

New cleaner

After 2011, there is no data on new tenders for the right to engage in cleaning in the army.

Information about new cleaning competitions in the army became public again in November 2014, according to data from Spark Marketing (between 2012 and 2014 there were no cleaning competitions in the Oborontorg system). The contracts based on the results of all these tenders were concluded already in 2015.

By March 25 of this year, Slavyanka had concluded 131 contracts for seven types of services for a total amount of 3.14 billion rubles. For comparison: for the entire 2014, the company concluded 155 contracts worth 758 million rubles. The vast majority of contracts this year fall into just two cleaning categories: “sanitation services and similar services” (25 contracts with a total value of 2.4 billion rubles, or 77% of the total volume of contracts concluded this year in monetary terms) and “Waste disposal services” (92 contracts with a total value of 453 million rubles; all calculations are based on Spark Marketing data). With the advent of these categories, the average cost of the competition at Slavyanka increased almost fivefold.

This year, 49 companies won the Slavyanka auction. In 20 out of 131 contracts, the winner is Megaline. True, in 12 cases the system contains all the company data, including TIN and address, and in 8 - only the name. If we assume that we're talking about about the same company, then from the beginning of the year to March 25, it received 58% of all Slavyanka contracts in monetary terms: by 1.83 billion rubles out of 3.14 billion rubles.

On March 23, Slavyanka published information about 12 more tenders for “sanitary maintenance.” On the government procurement website, Megaline is also listed as the winner of 10 out of 12 tenders. The total volume of contracts published under these procedures is about 1.14 billion rubles. At the time of submission of the material, information about the winners of the tenders appeared in the Spark Marketing system, but the contracts had not yet been formally concluded.

Thus, if we are talking about the same company, Megaline this year could receive Slavyanka cleaning contracts worth 2.97 billion rubles.

What is "Megaline"

“We have been on the market for more than 20 years. I can’t say that they didn’t work, but among the major players there is no such company as Megaline,” recalls Yuri Ryabichev. RBC’s interlocutor at another cleaning company says that he has known about Megaline for “some time.”

Megaline LLC, registered in St. Petersburg, according to Spark, has two co-owners - Concord Management and Consulting LLC (50%) and Lakhta LLC (50%). Until mid-2011, the owner of 14% of the shares of the first company was Yevgeny Prigozhin, and until September 2013 he controlled 80% of the second. Now “Concord Management and Consulting” belongs to Violetta Prigozhina (the same name, according to Novaya Gazeta, as the mother of restaurateur Evgeniy Prigozhin), and “Lakhta” belongs to Svetlana Sobirova (RBC did not find information about her).

The general director of Megaline, according to Spark, is Maxim Mashkantsev. It was not possible to find him using the Megaline phones. In addition to Megaline, Mashkantsev, according to Spark, heads several other St. Petersburg companies, including Sky CJSC. An employee of the Russian Empire restaurant answered one of the phone numbers of this company. This restaurant is listed among the projects of Prigozhin's Concord Catering company on its website. Finally, the general director of Sky CJSC was formerly Samuil Zharkoy (that, according to Forbes, is the name of Prigozhin’s stepfather), who now, according to Spark, heads Concord Management and Consulting.

Until recently, it was difficult to call Megaline large company: revenue for 2013 amounted to about 36.8 million rubles, for 2012 - only 13.4 million rubles. (Spark data).

Megaline’s first contracts appeared precisely in December 2014, when the army again began purchasing cleaning services. In addition to Slavyanka, Megaline became a contractor for two more military-related organizations by the end of February: a branch of the Central Military Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Defense (one contract for 12.9 million rubles) and CSKA (54 contracts for 65.5 million rubles). But in monetary terms, Megaline’s largest client is Slavyanka.

Old breadwinner

“Influential Russian politicians, successful businessmen, famous cultural and artistic figures trusted Concord Catering to host the most significant receptions in their lives and careers,” the company itself writes about itself on its website.

Concord Catering is part of the restaurant empire of Yevgeny Prigozhin. Since 1996, this company, according to its own data, has held more than 15 thousand events and served more than 1.5 million guests. Among these events are many of the most prestigious, in which high-ranking officials and the richest Russian businessmen participate: a reception at the Davos Forum, an award from the Russian Geographical Society (its board of trustees is headed by Vladimir Putin), a wedding in the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, “Forum Russia » Sberbank, follows from photo reports on its website.

Yevgeny Prigozhin’s companies feed not only the most important Russian politicians and businessmen, but also schoolchildren and soldiers.

According to Forbes, Prigozhin began building a gastronomic empire with the “Old Customs House” establishment in St. Petersburg: it opened in 1996 and among its guests were governors Anatoly Sobchak and Vladimir Yakovlev. Guests of Prigozhin's restaurants, according to Forbes, were the presidents of the United States and France George W. Bush and Jacques Chirac, and in the fall of 2003, Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, celebrated his birthday at Prigozhin's New Island establishment (Forbes' interlocutors say that Putin visited almost all St. Petersburg restaurants Prigogine). In the fall of 2010, the businessman gave the president a tour of his Concord - Culinary Line plant in the suburbs of St. Petersburg. Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov did not answer RBC’s question about the acquaintance of Prigozhin and Putin.

Now the list on the Concord website includes 10 restaurants in St. Petersburg, seven in Moscow and two in Sochi, as well as the Eliseev Merchants Store in St. Petersburg and the Chocolate Museum chain of stores.

Since 2012, structures controlled by Prigozhin began to receive significant state and near-state contracts. For example, the company Concord M LLC, owned by a businessman (see infographic), has become one of the main suppliers of food for managing the affairs of the president: 22 contracts worth about 128 million rubles. over the past three years.

And LLC “Concord Food Plant” became the main “cook” of Moscow schools: since 2012, the directorate of the Moscow Department of Education has provided Prigozhin with food contracts for 2013-2015 for a total amount of more than 10.6 billion rubles, according to Spark data.

At the end of 2012, two-year contracts worth 92 billion rubles were signed with Concorde subsidiaries. Voentorg concluded a contract to provide food for the Russian army, Forbes points out.

Military cleaning

The terms of reference for the provision of services for the sanitary maintenance of Ministry of Defense facilities in the Chitinsky branch have been published on the government procurement website. The document lists 118 facilities, the sanitary maintenance of which must be ensured by the winner: for example, 28 of them are located in Chita itself, the same number in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), and one in Buryatia. In total, the winner needs to ensure sanitary maintenance of more than 310,000 square meters. m of interior space and 33.2 million sq. m of adjacent territory.

In premises, for example, five times a week it is necessary to wash hard floors and vacuum floors with textile coverings, take out garbage and carry out wet cleaning of sanitary areas of office premises.

In the summer, sidewalks, garages, boxes, warehouses, arsenals, etc. should be swept outside. five times a week, whitewashing borders and trees - twice a year as needed, twice a month - grass cutting, cleaning and removal of cut grass. In winter, five times a week you need to sweep snow up to 2 cm thick from the sidewalks, clear the area of ice and ice and treat the sidewalks with de-icing agents, twice a week - carry out mechanized snow removal from sidewalks, roadways, parking lots, etc. Twice a year, the winner must carry out sanitary maintenance of fountains and pools in sports complexes.

All work must comply with GOST “Cleaning services for buildings and premises” and SanPiNam. The contract does not provide for advance payments, as stated in the terms of reference.

RBC did not find information about contracts for providing food to the army in Oborontorg and other trading systems. Technically this is possible. The fact is that Voentorg followed the letter of the law and switched to open system procurement only in January 2013, so there is no data on the company’s earlier contracts in the system, explains Ekaterina Smirnova, lawyer at the Yakovlev and Partners legal group.

For 2012-2014, Voentorg entered into contracts with 63 contractors (the terms of the contracts were different), a company representative responded to RBC’s request. “Based on the documents required for concluding contracts, it is not possible to establish the affiliation of these companies with each other or with any group of companies,” says the letter received by RBC. The company representative did not disclose the amount of the government contract between the Ministry of Defense and Voentorg, citing confidentiality.

From January 1, 2015, Voentorg will organize meals for the army under a new government contract with the Ministry of Defense, the company’s response says. Food service in the armed forces has been “outsourced in full” (services are provided both by Voentorg itself and by contractors).

Almost 100 billion rubles could be spent on feeding the army. in year. (Photo: TASS)

Contact Prigozhin at mobile phone For several days it was not possible; questions sent to him through his assistant remained unanswered. A representative of Concord Catering was unable to answer RBC's questions.

According to Spark-Interfax, AGAT LLC with the TIN indicated in the documents is registered in Lyubertsy, 66.67% belongs to itself, and 33.33% belongs to Kirill Kulebakin (at the same time he is the general director of Gazstroymetall LLC).

Among the companies associated with Prigozhin there is an LLC with the same name - “AGAT”, but it is registered in St. Petersburg. 90% of St. Petersburg “AGAT” belongs to Samuil Zharkoy, who has been the general director of the company since November 2014. Previously, since 2008, this LLC was owned by Lyubov Prigozhina.

The most interesting thing about the cleaning competitions held by Slavyanka is that all work must be completed by June 30, 2015. This means that potential contractors can expect new contracts from July.

At the end of 2014, the Ministry of Defense began to announce cleaning competitions directly, bypassing Slavyanka. At the time of preparation of the text, the total amount of tenders announced in a new way exceeded 14 billion rubles, with the lion’s share announced in March 2015. Contractors will have to carry out the work in 2015-2017.

At first, the ministry was going to close the acceptance of applications for participation in these auctions on March 30 - April 1. But then a notice appeared in the RTS-tender that the deadline for most contracts was postponed to mid-April.

As a result, by April 1, the Ministry of Defense independently awarded 12 contracts for the provision of sanitary services totaling more than 5.7 billion rubles, according to Spark data.

Five of them, worth 3.7 billion rubles, were received by the company Flagman Klin CJSC, owned by Elena Gruzova. This company is a dark horse. Until now, it has not received any other government contracts, and 139 other legal entities are listed at its registered address in Spark. The company could not be contacted.

Three contracts - for property maintenance, cleaning, etc. — by 1.9 billion rubles. received by Aktiv-Reserve CJSC. Its only owner is Tatiana Pyslaru, as follows from Spark data. The legal address of "Active-Reserve" coincides with the legal address of a major player in the cleaning market - the Fasilikom group of companies, only the office numbers differ. Fasilikom email addresses are indicated as contacts. “The Aktiv-Reserve company is in no way connected with us,” Eduard Apsit, the owner of Fasilikom Management Company, told RBC through a representative.

Official requests to Slavyanka and the Ministry of Defense also remained unanswered at the time of publication of the material.

With the participation of Anastasia Napalkova

In recent years, Megaline LLC, an organization associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is often called “Putin’s chef” in the media, has begun building the barracks. As Ko found out, the new barracks for the military are not much different from temporary vans for construction workers, but they are being built for permanent residence.

Innovation Barracks

The Megaline company, whose revenue last year reached 2.7 billion rubles, has two founders with equal shares: Lakhta LLC and Business Project LLC (data from the Kontur.Focus service). Although Lakhta belongs to a certain Svetlana Sobirova, this company is the successor to 14 companies of Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Until 2011, Megaline was under the control of Violetta Prigozhina, mother of Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Megaline with an authorized capital of 10,000 rubles. in 2014–2016 received from the Ministry of Defense direct government contracts worth 8.8 billion rubles. In fact, there are even more such contracts: the company often works under a subcontract, in particular, from the Main Directorate for the Arrangement of Troops JSC (GUOV), which builds living quarters for the army.

However, Megaline does not have a website, and the company’s activities can only be judged from information from government agencies. Megaline, judging by government orders, is not so much a construction company as a cleaning company. Thus, she served the structures of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod, but mainly specializes in cleaning and maintenance of sports facilities and barracks of the Central sports club army (CSKA), as well as the Patriot park. The Patriot Park hosts the largest military exhibitions and forums, for which the former leadership of the GUOV even wanted to build “five-star dugouts,” because the events are attended not only by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and his generals, but also by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, President Putin.

In February of this year, GUSST No. 1 (a division of Spetsstroy of Russia) concluded a government contract worth 204 million rubles with Megaline. for the design and installation of block-modular (or block-modular) structures. Barracks made of such structures - they are called cockpit-type barracks made of light steel thin-walled structures (LSTK) - were installed on the territory of military camp No. 5 in the city of Korenovsk Krasnodar region. Such barracks appearance not much different from construction booths-vans.

Block-modular barracks are actually containers, the walls of which consist of sandwich panels mounted on metal frames. Such boxes are usually used for temporary housing of migrant workers, exploration geologists, and drillers. They are hot in summer and cold in winter. According to GOST, these are mobile buildings intended for temporary residence. However, anti-aircraft gunners from the 77th brigade of the Southern Military District will live here permanently.

Maxim Boev, chief specialist of the department for monitoring government contracts of the Main Directorate No. 1 of Spetsstroy of Russia, is confident that “the builders tried to ensure the proper level of household and social conditions for military personnel." Igor Khmelyar, general director of the Fast Construction Technologies company, says that the Ministry of Defense began to use block-modular structures because they allow barracks to be quickly built, dismantled and transported. “During armed conflicts, such modular buildings will be in demand due to the speed of their construction and mobility,” says the website of one of the manufacturers.

In December last year, Megaline received a government contract from GUSST No. 1 in the amount of 161.2 million rubles for the construction of a prefabricated town from block-modular containers on the territory of military camp No. 35 “for permanent residence” in Omsk, Svetly.

“LSTK technology has already proven its economic efficiency; it allows you to save 15–25% of the cost of 1 sq. m of the constructed building costs no more than 37,000 rubles,” says Maria Klimenko, deputy head of the Department of Design Work and Scientific and Technical Activities of Spetsstroy of Russia. “Also, which is especially important when arranging military infrastructure, it allows you to save up to half the time compared to traditional construction technologies.”

But 1 sq. m of barracks being built in Omsk costs Russian budget approximately 40,000 rubles. This is an approximate calculation: the total amount includes asphalt paving of about 3000 square meters. m and planting lawns on 1800 sq. m. But there are offers on the market that are almost half the price. “We have 1 sq. m of block-modular structures, including installation, costs 19,000 rubles,” says Elena Zagorodskikh, project manager of the Blokmodulstroy company. – There are more expensive projects: for example, the gold mining company Polyus ordered us dormitories made of block-modular structures with vandal-proof toilets, but this order turned out to be cheaper than 40,000 rubles. per sq. m". “If we were to build these barracks, the price would be 62 million rubles. This is without delivery, asphalt and lawns. At 4000 sq. m, you can place 270 barracks measuring 14 m by 76 m,” calculated Elena Stepanova, sales manager of the Module Park company. It is unlikely that delivery, asphalting and lawns in this project cost 100 million rubles. “But in Omsk the prices are an order of magnitude higher than here in Moscow: if one change house here costs 60,000 rubles, there it costs 140,000 rubles,” adds Elena Stepanova. "Rapid Construction Technologies", Russia's largest manufacturer of block-modular structures, 1 sq. m of barracks in Omsk was ready to be built for 29,800 rubles.

But Blokmodulstroy and Fast Construction Technologies did not participate in Spetsstroy’s tenders, since the customer is ready to pay for the bulk of the work - 70% only after completion of the work - which is difficult for the companies. “Due to the lack of significant free working capital and support from banks in terms of issuing preferential loans for such orders, we cannot implement these projects,” explains Igor Khmelyar. The Module Park company participated in the competition, but did not receive government orders, although it offered more low prices than Megaline.

Block-modular barracks for permanent residence of military personnel are being built in Boguchary, Valuyki, Korenovsk, Chita, Omsk - in about 12 places in total. In Valuyki, Belgorod region, near the border of Ukraine, not far from the military conflict zone, more than 200 trailers have been installed for the temporary stay of military personnel. But in all other places this is what buildings for permanent military residence look like.

In Spetsstroy of Russia, which has its own soldiers, there were attempts to refuse such housing, but they did not lead to anything; after a call from above, these barracks are accepted, because everything is decided by contractors, including Megaline, sources tell Ko. Military prosecutors of the Moscow, Rostov and Bryansk garrisons also expressed dissatisfaction with the activities of Megaline, who sent claims to arbitration courts. Thus, the military prosecutor's office of the Rostov-on-Don garrison achieved a fine of 500,000 rubles. for the fact that Megaline began to build the Kuzminsky military camp to accommodate units of the 150th motorized rifle division without permission. “Megaline” built the dormitories of military camp No. 2 in Klintsy, Bryansk region, without a contract with the GUOV, for which it was fined 100,000 rubles at the request of the military prosecutor. However, this did not prevent Megaline from receiving a government contract worth 3.3 billion rubles. from Spetsstroy of Russia for the construction of a military camp in Valuyki.

When asked by “Ko” why exactly such housing is being built for the military, the head of the press service of the Main Directorate No. 1 of Spetsstroy of Russia, Yulia Visloguzova, answered: “The Main Directorate of Spetsstroy of Russia for the territory of the Central Federal District is constructing facilities strictly in accordance with the technical specifications and design estimate documentation approved by the customer.” It turns out that such barracks are ordered by the Ministry of Defense, and Spetsstroy simply carries out the order. The Ministry of Defense could not answer Ko’s question about why our military live in change houses instead of normal houses. Yevgeny Prigozhin also did not respond to Ko’s request. It was not possible to contact the general director of Megaline, Gennady Korupyatnik: the only telephone number out of four published in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities turned out to be the telephone number of the accounting department of this company, where they could not explain how to ask questions to Korupyatnik. The telephone numbers of the Megaline founders were also unavailable.

Meanwhile, the project of a dormitory (barracks) of a cubicle type from LSTK for the accommodation of military personnel, presented by Spetsstroy of Russia, received a diploma as a laureate of a professional competition for the best innovative project of the National Association of Prospectors and Designers (NOPRIZ). Including because the dormitory project, due to the elastic properties of the building elements, can withstand seismic loads of up to nine points, and due to the light weight of the structures, it is possible to use more economical foundations. In addition, such structures eliminate progressive collapse, since when one or more vertical or horizontal profiles are switched off, forces are redistributed to adjacent elements. This is how the designers responded to the tragedy in Omsk and the current military conflicts.

The company "Style-1", owned by the Antey Group of Companies, also took part in the construction of innovative barracks-containers (data from the Kontur.Focus service). Until 2014, Antey Group of Companies was controlled by Moscow Regional Duma deputy Alla Polyakova, sister of Mikhail Babich, plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal District. Currently, “Style-1” belongs to Vadim Novozhilov, the husband of Alla Polyakova. It was this company that built block barracks in Boguchar for 151.8 million rubles. and in the village of Svetly (Omsk) for 44.2 million rubles. However, the general director of the Style-1 company, Konstantin Fedotov, refused to discuss his work with the Ministry of Defense.

Lunches from defrosted food

Barracks and cleaning is not the first experience of cooperation between Prigozhin and the Ministry of Defense. As Forbes found out, his companies received 92 billion rubles. for dinners for the army. Prigozhin’s entire business is built on billions of government orders. Thus, his Concord food processing plant is the largest manufacturer of school meals; the amount of its contracts with Moscow schools in 2011–2015 amounted to 19.4 billion rubles. (data from the “Contour.Focus” service). When Concorde appeared in Moscow schools, children began to be fed defrosted food, which caused fair discontent among parents, since lunches for children must be freshly prepared. But Prigozhin owns fine-dining restaurants in St. Petersburg, which Vladimir Putin frequented, and this determined his success. Today, Prigozhin’s “Concord M” feeds all foreign delegations ordered by the Kremlevsky catering plant of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation and the largest forums - MAKS, the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, etc. According to the Kontur.Focus service, the amount of these orders in 2011 –2016 amounted to 453 million rubles.

However, Prigozhin became famous not only for dinners, but also litigation with Yandex, during which he demanded that articles about his past, where his criminal convictions were reported, be destroyed. And recently, Lyubov Sobol, a lawyer for Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, reported on Facebook that she suspects Prigozhin of attacking her husband, Sergei Mokhov, publisher of the magazine “Archaeology of Russian Death”: “For the last year, with my colleagues, I have been actively investigating the activities of Prigozhin, who ordered the attacks ( beatings, pouring feces) on journalists.” However, the editors of “Ko” do not have any evidence of the veracity of her accusations.

Structures associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin continue to develop government defense orders. Fontanka saw how the restaurateur actually replaced Evgenia Vasilyeva.

Another billions of rubles have left the Ministry of Defense in a direction that is already known. The competitions organized by the monopolist for servicing military camps, JSC State Housing and Communal Services, look similar to the real ones - but this is a sign. Fontanka has established that six companies registered to nominal owners are participating in the “competitive” struggle. The control center is in the office of Megaline LLC on Vasilyevsky Island, at the headquarters of Yevgeny Prigozhin.

The formation of a new super-monopoly serving the Russian army is almost complete. Companies associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin have already received government contracts to provide food for military personnel, energy supply, water supply and maintenance of the barracks fund of military camps. Megaline also receives the lion's share of orders for capital construction. Now the most influential culinary specialist in Russia is apparently picking up the remains of the army pie - government orders for the current repair of military camps. On a national scale, these “remains” have already reached 6 billion, and the amount is increasing every month.

The collapse of Minister Serdyukov and his passion Evgenia Vasilyeva taught his followers something. If Serdyukov directly and openly, with a personally signed order, delegated the sale of military real estate to three private companies, then at Concord everything is done more secretly. Formally, everything is in perfect order - JSC GU Housing and Public Utilities announces competitions, a commission meets, and the winner is determined. The participating companies are not related to Megaline, and Megaline is not related to Prigozhin. “Fontanka” is ready to show that this is a performance that does not deceive anyone.

Six pads for 6 billion

In the story with military boiler houses, which Fontanka reported in January 2016, the organizers of the pseudo-competitions turned out to be careless: the appointment of people from Prigozhin’s security service as vice-chairmen of dummy legal entities was striking. When entering the market current repairs acted somewhat more subtly.

Western Military District: two companies are fighting for the right to ongoing repairs - Skotsia LLC and Exedra Plus LLC. Registration documents were submitted on the same day in December 2014. As a name - special architectural terms. Until 2016, when Skotsia received government orders worth 2 billion rubles, and Exedra Plus - 0.5 billion rubles, it was impossible to find the slightest sign of any activity of the companies.

If we look nationwide, we will see that only six companies receive orders for routine repairs from the Ministry of Defense. In addition to Scotia and Exedra Plus, according to SPARK, these are Promstandart (1.1 billion rubles), SK Leader (754 million rubles), Phoenix (1 billion rubles) and Eurogroup "(666 million rubles).

These companies periodically win or lose competitions, but one way or another, they are the ones who share all the current repairs of military camps.

None of these “construction firms” ever showed up anywhere before 2016. Fontanka contacted the nominal owners and managers.

Owner and General Director of Skotsia LLC Ekaterina Tsapkova: “Sorry, I’m very busy, I don’t have time to talk to you.” After asking about the office address, she hung up.

The owner and general director of Exedra Plus LLC, Yulia Khokhlova, judging by social networks, - friend of “competitor” Tsapkova: “Where is the company’s office? Why should I even answer this question? I don't have time to talk to you now. I don’t know when the time will be, not this week for sure.”

The owner and general director of Phoenix, Ivan Kokhan, according to his family, found himself at the dacha in the middle of the working day. He did not respond to a request to call back.

The owners and general directors of Eurogroup and Promstandart, Andrei Mandel and Anastasia Fomin, could not be found.

Owner and General Director of SK Leader Vyacheslav Parfenov: “No, I won’t share my success story with you. Why do you need this? Let's drop this question. Find out on your own, you will find everything in open sources. Goodbye!"

This is a failure, thought Stirlitz

Fontanka always follows good advice. Open sources convincingly show that the “owners” and “general directors” are the essence of the screen behind which the Megaline monopolist is carelessly hidden.

It is easy to find out that all six companies use the services provided by the SBIS company to send reports. Which, in turn, publishes the email addresses from which these reports come.

Open sources show that the reports of “irreconcilable competitors” SK Leader, Eurogroup, Phoenix and Exedra Plus are sent from the same “talking” email address - [email protected].

Reports from Scotia and Promstandart are sent from an equally interesting address - [email protected]. Note that office-vp.spb.ru is the domain name of Megaline’s corporate mail. As well as other companies that are informally united under the auspices of the empire of Yegeni Prigozhin.

Dialectics of competition

Continuing, on the advice of Mr. Parfenov, to study open sources, we came across very frank resumes posted on the Internet by former and current Megaline employees in search of new job(judging by the number of resumes, the turnover in the holding is huge). Conspiracy was not up to par.

For example, the former “head of the department for current repairs in the Western Military District” Vyacheslav (his last name is known to the editors) describes his achievements in December 2015 - April 2016: “Creation of a department (number of 60 people). Organization of work on the current repair of the housing complex (barracks and housing stock. - Note ed.) military units of the Western Military District on the part of the general contractor. Organization of work by subcontractors and teams.”

Vyacheslav designates his place of work as follows: “Skotsia”, “Exedra Plus” (“Megaline”). It is probably convenient to manage ongoing repairs simultaneously in two competing companies. Fontanka asked how this was possible.

– Vyacheslav Arkadyevich, I would like to talk with you about your work for Mr. Prigozhin.

– I only worked for him for six months. And I don't want problems.

– In your resume, posted on a number of open Internet resources, you directly indicate the connection between Megaline, as well as the companies Scotia and Exedra Plus...

- Well, yes, there is probably some kind... Naturally... Why not? I don't think there is any crime in this. We were sitting in the same office, in the Megaline business center. I don't see any problem with this.

– Don’t you see any problems in the fact that two companies under the control of their chairman act as pseudo-competitors in government contracts? Don’t you think that there is an element of fraud in this that Concord-Megaline is engaged in?

– This was not born yesterday or today, so I can neither refute nor confirm anything. I am bound by certain subscriptions and conceptual obligations. Why do I need unnecessary trouble?

“Fontanka” reacted with understanding to Vyacheslav’s indecision, especially since there are unpleasant rumors about the circumstances of his dismissal. We asked him about the veracity of the rumors:

- Sorry for the personal question. Is it true that Prigozhin carried out physical violence against you?

- Well, all this... I don’t want to expand...

– It seems to me that you have answered the question.

– I kind of neither confirm nor deny.

After a conversation with Fontanka, all mentions of Megaline disappeared from the resume, but the search engine cache remembers.

"GU Housing and Public Utilities" shared powers

The resume of engineer Konstantin from Pskov (his last name is known to the editors), who worked at Scotia in April – May 2016, also seemed no less interesting. He claimed that he not only organized construction works, but at the same time was a representative by proxy of JSC “GU Housing and Public Utilities” with the right to organize and conduct meetings; provide information upon request; sign and send letters to military districts and fleets in order to organize access control; participate in meetings held by representatives of the Russian Ministry of Defense on issues of current repairs; request information in order to implement the current repair program from the Russian Ministry of Defense, authorities state power and other organizations; carry out inspections of objects, their video and photographic recording, the necessary tests and measurements regarding current repairs.”

The actual coincidence of powers between the customer and the contractor amazed Fontanka. Konstantin did not deign to explain: “I don’t work there now and have nothing to do with it. I am not authorized to say anything. I can’t say what company I worked for. Sorry, I’m not giving any information.”

An hour after the conversation, all mentions of Scotia, GU Housing and Communal Services and the defense order disappeared from the resume.

Kaleidoscope of employers

An engineer named Svetlana from Murmansk (the surname is known to the editors) shared her story with Fontanka. In June 2016, she responded to a vacancy at Dvizhenie Group of Companies. She was offered to conclude an agreement with SK Leader LLC, and attempts to get her signed copy led to communication with the HR manager from Exedra Plus LLC. Its managers and inspectors, who came from St. Petersburg, as Svetlana says, introduced themselves as representatives of Megaline or Concord. Stunned by a series of formally unrelated legal entities and the amount of wages that did not correspond to the agreements, Svetlana wrote a letter of resignation of her own free will. Since July, she has been unsuccessfully trying to get her work book; problems with dismissal forced her to contact the labor inspectorate and the Investigative Committee.

Former employees of the apparatus of a multidisciplinary organization with many names explained to Fontanka that the personnel confusion is easily explained.

The Movement group of companies is a non-existent organization, on behalf of which vacancies of all legal entities included in the informal empire are published - restaurant business, catering, military and civilian catering, military and civil construction, and so on, and so on, and so on.

All these legal entities are under common management. Megaline coordinates the activities of companies involved in military government orders. All personnel production is concentrated in the St. Petersburg office, on the 17th line of Vasilievsky Island, building 54, building “D”, office 423, both from the elevator and to the right. Part of the office work is in building “A”.

Since each HR employee “manages” several legal entities, some confusion in addresses and signatures is inevitable. The role of formal owners and managers of gasket companies is reduced to signing powers of attorney.

No one has any doubts about who the real head of the company is. Evgeny Prigozhin, as former workers of the empire’s construction block tell Fontanka, sometimes holds production meetings on those construction projects that he personally supervises, for example, the construction of a new military camp in Valuyki.

The inevitability of Megaline

It seems that nothing is stopping independent builders from entering the competition and trying to beat the price of Megaline’s “gasket”. But this is not so; interference from a competitor from outside is practically excluded. Fontanka drew attention to how the technical specifications were drawn up.

Each lot is formed in such a way that it includes objects scattered throughout the military district. One task combines roof repairs in the Tver region, interior spaces in Solnechnogorsk near Moscow and Kursk, staircase repairs in Kaluga, concrete work in Belarus and plumbing replacement in St. Petersburg. It is clear that, except for a monopolist, no one can handle such a spread. Megaline, by the way, is also beyond its capabilities, and most of the work is carried out by subcontractors, who are imposed conditions similar to bondage.

Indispensability

All our interlocutors emphasize: this will last for a long time. A system has already been built in which the entire life cycle of military camps, from construction to mowing lawns, is provided not so much by specialized structures of the Ministry of Defense, but by regional representative offices of Megaline. The concession that Concord dreamed of two years ago did not materialize by force of law. It turned out even better - the same money, but without responsibility. Let us remind you: Yevgeny Prigozhin is not among the owners or managers of commercial companies working under military government orders. There are a scattering of easily interchangeable limited liability companies registered at par. There is nothing to take from them.

Fontanka turned to Megaline LLC with a question about the companies Promstandart LLC, SK Leader, Phoenix, Eurogroup, Exedra Plus and Skotsia, which, according to the editors, belong to nominal owners , but are actually managed by Megaline LLC.

General Director of Megaline Gennady Korupyatnik: “In response to your request, I inform you that Megaline LLC does not have information about the affiliation of the companies you listed.”

Gennady Korupyatnik sent his answer by email. His address is registered on the same corporate domain office-vp.spb.ru as the address of the accountant of Skotia and Promstandart.

Denis Korotkov, Fontanka.ru

As RBC found out, since the end of last year, companies probably associated with his Concord group have been receiving government contracts for the sanitary maintenance of Ministry of Defense facilities

Meeting and saying goodbye to "Slavyanka"

“Given the transition of the army to a one-year service period, soldiers need to be “relieved of performing functions unusual for them,” then-Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov declared in 2010. The life of the army has been outsourced. Civilian contractors were assigned food, laundry, cleaning, and equipment repairs.

The state holding Oboronservis took over the organization of outsourcing. Its “subsidiaries” Aviaremont, Spetsremont and Remvooruzhenie became responsible for the maintenance, repair and disposal of weapons, Oboronstroy - for the construction and operation of facilities, Agroprom - for the production and supply of agricultural products, food, bathing laundry services and provision of military uniforms were assigned responsibility to Voentorg, and for hotel services - to OJSC "Slavyanka". Later, Slavyanka began managing the housing stock and housing and communal services.

“The system of providing services by third-party organizations made it possible to free more than 65 thousand military personnel from functions unusual for them,” the new Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu rejoiced in the summer of 2014. The staff size of the Russian army is 1.9 million people, of which 1 million are military personnel.

What is OJSC "Slavyanka"
Slavyanka calls itself “the largest housing and communal services enterprise in Russia.” As of the end of 2014, 99.99% of the company’s shares belong to Oboronservis (December 1, 2014, renamed JSC Garrison), and 0.00002% belongs to the Russian Federation. At the end of 2013, the company had 52 regional branches and more than 40,000 employees. Slavyanka's assets as of December 31, 2013 amounted to 33.25 billion rubles, net revenue - 29.78 billion rubles, net profit - 4 million rubles.

Since 2010, “Slavyanka” began holding tenders for the right to provide “cleaning services” to the army - cleaning of premises and territories, sanitation, waste removal, etc. In 2010 and 2011, the company, according to data from the Oborontorg system (which conducts procurement for the needs of the Ministry of Defense), put up for auction 12 contracts for such services totaling about 3.5 billion rubles.

The first contracts in 2010 were concluded by Slavyanka for several months with the possibility of extension, then for one and a half to two years, recalls Yuri Ryabichev, president of the Association of Russian Cleaning Companies, director of the Primex group (it received several contracts in 2010–2011). In the first months, he recalls, it was not even clear exactly what area the contractors needed to clean. “Nothing was calculated, since before this the Ministry of Defense had never carried out accurate measurements of the areas being harvested, and this amounts to millions of square meters,” he says.

In 2011–2012, the Ministry of Defense became the country’s largest customer in the cleaning market, says Ryabichev. “Initially, everything looked quite profitable,” he recalls. But soon prices dropped from 20–30 rubles. per square meter up to 15–20, and in some cases up to 12 rubles, that is, below the break-even level, he continues. “But the main thing is that Slavyanka gradually began to pay with long delays. People were sitting without wages,” says Ryabichev. “It’s a very bad situation: it is impossible to suspend work under these government contracts, while government customers remain in debt to contractors for years of work, some of them have not received payment for more than a year,” adds Eduard Apsit, owner of Fasilikom Management Company (engaged in cleaning services under the Clean Svet brand ").

“We are not working [with Slavyanka] under new contracts and have not even tried to participate in them,” says RBC’s interlocutor at another company that also won the contract in 2010–2011. “We are not interested in this customer […] The relationship has broken down.” When asked to explain the reasons, RBC’s interlocutor replies: look at the situation with the old contracts.

Judging by the database of arbitration cases, the number of claims from counterparties against Slavyanka has increased significantly in recent years: if in 2012 the company was a defendant in 165 cases, then in 2013 there were already 1030, and in 2014 - 1757 (for more details, see below). schedule).

RUB 97.6 billion - Minister Shoigu estimated Oboronservis’s debts to contractors at this amount in the summer of 2014.

In addition to all the problems, Oboronservis, and with it Slavyanka, in 2012 found themselves at the center of an apparatus-corruption scandal, which later led to resignation of Serdyukov from the post of Minister of Defense. In October a criminal case was initiated case of fraud with Oboronservis property. A month later, investigators opened a criminal case based on violations at Slavyanka: allegedly, budget money was stolen during the implementation of government contracts (including for cleaning). Nine people were charged in this case, including the then general director of Slavyanka Alexander Elkin.

Who replaced the contractors of the Serdyukov era?

New cleaner

After 2011, there is no data on new tenders for the right to engage in cleaning in the army.

This year, 49 companies won the Slavyanka auction. In 20 out of 131 contracts, the winner is Megaline. True, in 12 cases the system contains all the company data, including TIN and address, and in 8 - only the name. If we assume that we are talking about the same company, then from the beginning of the year to March 25, it received 58% of all Slavyanka contracts in monetary terms: 1.83 billion rubles out of 3.14 billion rubles.

Thus, if we are talking about the same company, Megaline this year could receive Slavyanka cleaning contracts worth 2.97 billion rubles.

What is "Megaline"

Megaline LLC, registered in St. Petersburg, according to Spark, has two co-owners - Concord Management and Consulting LLC (50%) and Lakhta LLC (50%). Until mid-2011, the owner of 14% of the shares of the first company was Yevgeny Prigozhin, and until September 2013 he controlled 80% of the second. Now “Concord Management and Consulting” belongs to Violetta Prigozhina (also, according to Novaya Gazeta, the name of the mother of restaurateur Evgeniy Prigozhin), and “Lakhta” belongs to Svetlana Sobirova (RBC did not find information about her).

Until recently, Megaline could hardly be called a large company: revenue for 2013 amounted to about 36.8 million rubles, for 2012 - only 13.4 million rubles. (Spark data).

Megaline's first contracts appeared precisely in December 2014, when the army again began purchasing cleaning services. In addition to Slavyanka, Megaline became a contractor for two more military-related organizations by the end of February: a branch of the Central Military Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Defense (one contract for 12.9 million rubles) and CSKA (54 contracts for 65.5 million rubles). But in monetary terms, Megaline’s largest client is Slavyanka.

Old breadwinner

According to Forbes, Prigozhin began building a gastronomic empire with the Old Customs establishment in St. Petersburg: it opened in 1996 and among its guests were governors Anatoly Sobchak and Vladimir Yakovlev. Guests of Prigozhin's restaurants, according to Forbes, were the presidents of the United States and France George W. Bush and Jacques Chirac, and in the fall of 2003, Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, celebrated his birthday at Prigozhin's New Island establishment (Forbes' interlocutors say that Putin visited almost all St. Petersburg restaurants Prigogine). In the fall of 2010, the businessman gave the president a tour of his Concord - Culinary Line plant in the suburbs of St. Petersburg. Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov did not answer RBC’s question about the acquaintance of Prigozhin and Putin.

And LLC “Concord Food Plant” became the main “cook” of Moscow schools: since 2012, the directorate of the Moscow Department of Education has provided Prigozhin with food contracts for 2013–2015 for a total amount of more than 10.6 billion rubles, according to Spark data.

At the end of 2012, two-year contracts worth 92 billion rubles were signed with Concorde subsidiaries. Voentorg concluded a contract to provide food for the Russian army, Forbes points out.

Military cleaning
The terms of reference for the provision of services for the sanitary maintenance of Ministry of Defense facilities in the Chitinsky branch have been published on the government procurement website. The document lists 118 facilities, the sanitary maintenance of which must be ensured by the winner: for example, 28 of them are located in Chita itself, the same number in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), and one in Buryatia. In total, the winner needs to ensure sanitary maintenance of more than 310,000 square meters. m of interior space and 33.2 million sq. m of adjacent territory.
In premises, for example, five times a week it is necessary to wash hard floors and vacuum floors with textile coverings, take out garbage and carry out wet cleaning of sanitary areas of office premises.
In the summer, sidewalks, garages, boxes, warehouses, arsenals, etc. should be swept outside. five times a week, whitewashing borders and trees - twice a year as needed, twice a month - grass mowing, cleaning and removal of cut grass. In winter, five times a week you need to sweep snow up to 2 cm thick from the sidewalks, clear the area of ice and ice and treat the sidewalks with de-icing agents, twice a week - carry out mechanized snow removal from sidewalks, roadways, parking lots, etc. Twice a year, the winner must carry out sanitary maintenance of fountains and pools in sports complexes.
All work must comply with GOST “Cleaning services for buildings and premises” and SanPiNam. The contract does not provide for advance payments, as stated in the terms of reference.

RBC did not find information about contracts for providing food to the army in Oborontorg and other trading systems. Technically this is possible. The fact is that Voentorg followed the letter of the law and switched to an open procurement system only in January 2013, so there is no data on the company’s earlier contracts in the system, explains Ekaterina Smirnova, a lawyer at the Yakovlev and Partners legal group. A Voentorg representative had not responded to RBC’s request by the time the article was published.

It was not possible to contact Prigozhin by mobile phone for several days; questions sent to him through his assistant remained unanswered. A representative of Concord Catering was unable to answer RBC's questions.

Four more Slavyanka sanitary contracts totaling 430 million rubles. received this year by AGAT LLC. It also received two “direct” contracts from the Ministry of Defense (the minimum amount for two lots is 192.1 million rubles, and the publicly available contracts have a total amount of 469.9 million rubles).
According to Spark-Interfax, AGAT LLC with the TIN indicated in the documents is registered in Lyubertsy, 66.67% belongs to itself, and 33.33% belongs to Kirill Kulebakin (at the same time he is the general director of Gazstroymetall LLC).
Among the companies associated with Prigozhin there is an LLC with the same name - “AGAT”, but it is registered in St. Petersburg. 90% of St. Petersburg “AGAT” belongs to Samuil Zharkoy, who has been the general director of the company since November 2014. Previously, since 2008, this LLC was owned by Lyubov Prigozhina.

What will happen next

As a result, by April 1, the Ministry of Defense independently awarded 12 contracts for the provision of sanitary services totaling more than 5.7 billion rubles, according to Spark data.

Three contracts - for property maintenance, cleaning, etc. - by 1.9 billion rubles. received by Aktiv-Reserve CJSC. Its only owner is Tatiana Pyslaru, as follows from Spark data. The legal address of "Active-Reserve" coincides with the legal address of a major player in the cleaning market - the Fasilikom group of companies, only the office numbers differ. Fasilikom email addresses are indicated as contacts. “The Aktiv-Reserve company is in no way connected with us,” Eduard Apsit, the owner of Fasilikom Management Company, told RBC through a representative.

Official requests to Slavyanka, Voentorg and the Ministry of Defense also remained unanswered at the time of publication of the material.

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