Sergei Makarov, director of the Ugra Capital Repair Fund, has been fired. . A couple of months ago, nothing foreshadowed such an alignment. However, just last week, facts were made public that made Sergei Makarov, in fact, incompatible with his position. Details - in the material "AiF-Yugra".
Letter for you!
In the 20th of January it became known that at the end of 2015 Governor of Yugra Natalya Komarova received a letter. Wrote her Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation for the Urals Federal District Yuri Ponomarev, reporting suspicious financial transactions in the Yugra Capital Repair Fund, identified by Rosfinmonitoring specialists.
For example, the inspectors found such an unpleasant thing. In 2015, 1 billion 168 million rubles were received to the Fund's account intended for contributions from the population. Of these, 563 million rubles were allocated directly to pay contractors. The rest of the money lay in the Khanty-Mansiysk bank and interest dripped on them. So, by decision supervisory board Fund, these interest in the amount of 64 million rubles were withdrawn from the account and spent on financing the activities of the Fund itself. Of these, almost 29 million rubles are paid to employees.
Moreover, most of one employee received these funds - Director of the Foundation Sergei Makarov. As a result, his official income for 11 months of 2015 exceeded 10 million rubles.
“In view of the foregoing, I propose to develop a legal act regulating the procedure for spending interest on the use of funds held on the accounts of a regional operator. I ask you to inform me about the results, ”wrote Yuri Ponomarev.
Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Ponomarev. Photo: press service of the Governor of Ugra
First reaction
The authorities of the district reacted to the prosecutor's letter quite promptly. At the first meeting of the Duma of Ugra in 2016, which took place on January 28, the deputies decided that from now on the Ugra Overhaul Fund can spend interest accrued on people's money only for its intended purpose.
“When there are free balances on the accounts of the Ugra overhaul operator apartment buildings, and they are placed on bank accounts, the proceeds by government decree will be directed only to the immediate goals of the fund - that is, to the overhaul of housing. For no other purpose. Neither for salary payments, nor for any acquisitions, ”he assured Speaker of the District Duma Boris Khokhryakov.
Sergei Makarov, however, tried to explain himself.
“Interest has not been withdrawn. They were taken on a return basis, most of them have already been returned, - the now former director of the URA.ru agency quotes. - The fact is that we have never allowed ourselves to take interest, especially for the payment of wages. An order has been developed - interest cannot be used in any way, except for overhaul. They gave an explanation, signed it at the housing and communal services department and sent it to the prosecutor’s office.”
But what the 29 million rubles were spent on, which the Deputy Prosecutor General is talking about, Sergey Makarov did not explain. As well as nothing to justify his exorbitantly high salary.
The opposition has arrived
Meanwhile, the scandal has seeped into the most high level- to Moscow. State Duma deputies from the Communist Party Sergey Obukhov and Valery Rashkin turned to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with a request to liquidate capital repair funds throughout the country and return paid contributions to citizens. To justify the fact that the funds are ineffective, they, in particular, cited the case of Sergei Makarov's salary.
Yugra State Duma deputy from A Just Russia Mikhail Serdyuk wrote a letter to Natalya Komarova demanding to dismiss the Director of the Fund.
“This is absurd! Today, residents of hundreds and thousands of apartment buildings in the district, who are forced to pay the cost of capital repairs of buildings from their personal funds at a rate close to the established maximum, against their will participate in a “charity marathon” in favor of the head of the overhaul fund. At the same time, most of them are not even aware of the extent of their virtue. People are just being kept in the dark. I think that the best thing that shines in the end for Yugra Ostap Bender is retraining as a house manager, ”Fair Russia is not shy about using expressions.
“We follow the letter of the law, a special anti-corruption commission has been set up in the Fund. We should not and cannot have any corruption schemes, because we work with the funds of the owners and must account for every ruble.”
Specialists from the YABLOKO Anti-Corruption Center conducted an analysis of the transparency of the work of the Fund for the Capital Repair of Moscow Apartment Buildings (the Fund), learned how budget funds are spent, and found out how open the Fund is from the point of view of civil control.
Preliminary conclusions
Many data are hidden
Funds from overhaul fees are accumulated in an account with the Moscow Department of Finance, their further use until payment for contract work for overhaul is not disclosed. In particular, the question remains whether the funds are placed in banks and, if so, on what terms. The total amount of fees collected has not yet been made public. The exact budget of the Fund is not disclosed.
Fund is wasteful
The maintenance of the Fund costs taxpayers a year in the amount of about 690 million rubles. The Fund's leaders (they were civil servants only yesterday) continue to receive salaries, incentives and bonuses from the Moscow budget. However, they no longer publish declarations of income that are mandatory for officials and are considered employees of NGOs. Purchases for the needs of the Fund and during the overhaul were withdrawn from the public procurement system. Read on for details.
Fees depreciate
The amount is about 5.3 billion rubles. Today it is kept on the account of the Fund and depreciates due to inflation. At the current rate of fees and expenses for 2016, the amount of losses due to inflation could amount to 1.2 billion rubles.
Big Picture
From July 1, 2015, the owners of residential and non-residential premises located in Moscow are required to pay monthly contributions for capital repairs to the Fund. The founder and supervising organization of the Fund is the Department of capital repairs of the city of Moscow. Artur Keskinov headed the created fund, for this he had to leave the post of head of the Department of Capital Repairs of the city of Moscow. He was in the position of the head of the department for 10 years (7 years - the head of the Capital Repair Department and another 3 years - the Department of Housing and Public Utilities). He was replaced by Vitaliy Mikhailichenko, Keskinov's former deputy.
Financial support for the current activities of the Fund is carried out at the expense of budgetary appropriations from the budget of the city of Moscow. However, the published budget of Moscow does not provide accurate information about the funds that the city spends on the Fund's activities.
Table 1. Budget allocations envisaged
Department of capital repairs of the city of Moscow
As can be seen from Table 1, the Moscow budget shows the Capital Repairs Department's staffing costs for all government institutions and extrabudgetary funds, as well as the total amount of the department's subsidies for non-profit organizations. There is no publicly available information on how much funds the Fund receives from the state.
It should be noted that the funds directly provided for in the Moscow budget do not reflect all the expected expenses of the Fund.
The lack of transparency in the allocation of public funds for the activities of the Fund raises significant questions from the point of view of combating corruption.
Fund Spending
The Capital Repair Fund began its activities with the cost of repairing premises for the Fund, purchasing furniture and ordering a number of research projects.
The renovation of premises in 2015, based on the initial maximum price for the lots, cost the Fund more than 86 million rubles.
The purchase of furniture in 2015 cost a little more than 32.5 million rubles. It is noteworthy that the development of a number of regulatory legal acts for the activities of the Fund was carried out not by lawyers of the Department of Capital Repairs of the City of Moscow, but by a third-party fund - the Institute for Economics of the City. The initial purchase price for the development of regulations amounted to 4.33 million rubles.
The plan for the procurement of goods (works, services) for 2016 assumes expenses in the amount of 90.47 million rubles. Among the purchases for 2016, “the provision of services for information and analytical processing of applications received by the Fund” is indicated. Why the Fund conducts purchases for the development normative documents and processing of appeals when there are lawyers on staff remains unclear.
It should be noted that the Fund's website indicates plans to recruit about 600 specialists by the end of the 1st quarter of 2016: engineers, lawyers, accountants, etc. The Fund offers a "stable official income" of 47,500 rubles. + bonuses.
Sources in the mayor's office claim that the total bonuses of Moscow officials (monthly, quarterly and annual) are approximately 70-80% monthly of the salary of an average employee. Thus, about 256 million a year can go to the bonuses of the fund's employees.
A rough estimate shows that personnel costs for the year will amount to around 598 million rubles.
In total, the maintenance of the Fund should cost approximately 690 million -190499 per year 
Payroll information CEO The Foundation and its six deputies remain closed. It is not possible to compare changes in the salaries of the Fund's management since the transition from public service in the field of NGOs.
Formation of the Fund's budget
The Fund's budget is formed from monthly contributions in the amount of 15 rubles. per one square meter.
There are two storage options available:
1) On the account of the Capital Repair Fund - an organization specially created by the Government of Moscow to accumulate funds from owners and organize major repairs.
2) On a special bank account opened for a particular house.
Only 130 multi-apartment residential buildings (MZD) chose the second option. 28,942 MRR (total area 212.14 million sq. m.) send funds to the Fund. The percentage of collection in Moscow is one of the highest in Russia: 91.4%, so significant amounts accumulate on the Fund's account.
How much is planned to collect?
Capital Repair Fund plans to place annual report only by July 1, 2016. While there is no official data, we will carry out preliminary calculations.
Table 2 Formation of the account of the Capital Repair Fund
How much was spent on repairs
The total price of the announced and already completed tenders for the overhaul of houses amounted to 9,928,409,072 rubles as of March 21, 2016. Another 11,947,367,797 rubles. for the same period allocated for the repair of elevators. The average percentage of the decrease in the initial price at the auction was about 5.17%. That is, about 20.78 billion rubles were spent on overhaul. Taking into account the collection percentage, by this time the fund should have accumulated about 26.1 billion rubles. from citizen fees.
Thus, today about 5.3 billion rubles. remains on the account of the Moscow fund and is rapidly depreciating.
Fund and inflation
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Kozak said in an interview: “The total amount of fees for capital repairs in Russia in 2015 amounted to 97 billion rubles, of which repair work only 25 billion rubles.” According to preliminary data for 2015, the Moscow Capital Repair Fund completed only half of the planned work. Planned / completed in current year: 2,297 / 1,087 (as of 12/01/2015).
Based on this information, the question arises of saving the Fund's funds from inflation. At the end of 2015, inflation in Russia, according to official data, amounted to 12.9 percent. Thus, in 2016, even with a planned inflation of 6.4%, the Fund risks losing more than 1.2 billion rubles.
The funds accumulated by the Fund, in accordance with the provisions of Decree of the Government of Moscow No. 834-PP dated December 29, 2014, are kept on an account with the Moscow Department of Finance. Despite the indication that such funds can only be spent on major repairs of the Moscow Railway, it remains unclear whether they are placed in banks. And if so, under what conditions, is interest fixed, and how is it spent.
Based on Decree of the Government of Moscow No. 86-PP dated February 27, 2015, the Fund cannot annually spend more than 90% of the fees for the past calendar year. It is not known for what purpose this norm was introduced, since the funds in this case inevitably depreciate.
Regional Capital Improvement Program 2015-2044
The program is designed for 30 years (from 2015 - 2044). It is worth noting that a third of the total housing stock included in the overhaul program is located in the Central Administrative District. Thus, apartment owners from other administrative districts will sponsor the renovation of houses in the center.
It raises questions about the need for a “common boiler”, if possible, to distribute contributions among the administrative districts of Moscow and carry out repairs in each district separately. Decentralization can reduce corruption risks in selecting contractors and performing work.
conclusions
The analysis carried out showed the need to disclose socially important information about the Fund's activities.
Getting all the benefits public funding, The Fund is actually withdrawn from the control system government agencies. Head of the Foundation - former leader Department of Capital Repairs - now reports on the activities of the Fund to his former subordinate, who replaced him. Information on the Foundation's website is not published in full. The lack of essential information is mitigated by a large number of complimentary publications about the Fund in the media.
From our point of view, the Government of Moscow, represented by competent authorities necessary:
- Publish information on the budgetary funds allocated for the current activities of the Capital Repair Fund;
- Oblige the management of the Fund to regularly publish declarations of income, expenses, property and liabilities of a property nature;
- Publish information about salaries and bonuses received by the management of the Capital Repair Fund (according to the Charter of the Fund, this information cannot be a commercial secret);
- Introduce restrictions on engaging in other paid activities for the Fund's managers in accordance with the restrictions and prohibitions for public servants;
- Disclose information on the procedure for using funds on the Fund's account with the Moscow Department of Finance;
- Differentiate the amount of the monthly contribution depending on the administrative district;
- To carry out a quarterly report on the collected and spent funds for the overhaul of the Moscow Railway;
- Limit the spending of funds within the administrative district in which the collections were made, up to the complete abolition at the federal level of illegal, from the point of view of the YABLOKO party, fees for overhaul.
Member of the Federal Political Committee of the YABLOKO Party
Sergei Mitrokhin
Head of the Anti-Corruption Center of the YABLOKO Party
Alexey Karnaukhov
Lawyer of the Anti-Corruption Center of the YABLOKO Party
Alexey Chumakov
Directors and members of the governing bodies of regional capital repair funds are offered to limit the total amount of payments - it should not exceed the average salary in the region by more than two times. A group of State Duma deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation sent a corresponding appeal to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Minister of Construction and Housing and Public Utilities Mikhail Menu. The Communists also suggested that the prime minister consider dismissing the heads of regional foundations who failed the aptitude test.
In a deputy request (available to Izvestia), parliamentarians draw attention to the multimillion-dollar salary of the ex-head of the Capital Repair Fund of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, Sergei Makarov, who received more than 10 million rubles as a salary in 11 months of 2015.
The deputies propose to set a limit on the total amount of payments to directors of overhaul funds at the level of 200% of the average salary in the region, as well as members of management bodies and other employees - in descending gradation from the specified amount. For example, if average salary in KhMAO in 2015 was at the level of 56.3 thousand rubles, then the ex-director of the fund could count on the maximum monthly payment of 112.6 thousand rubles, and not 900 thousand, as he received.
Inefficient and corrupt capital repair funds must be liquidated. We insist on the immediate dismissal of all heads of overhaul funds who have shown their professional incompetence, and on the legislative limitation of the level wages for the directors of these ill-fated funds, otherwise we will then have to run around the regions and find out which of them stole millions collected by citizens for major repairs into their pockets, as was the case in Ugra, - Sergey Obukhov told Izvestia.
The salary of some heads of regional overhaul funds really raises questions. For example, in accordance with the resolution of the Smolensk regional administration, the head of the local overhaul fund received a monthly monetary incentive in the amount of 17 official salaries with a salary of 20 thousand rubles. Thus, it turns out that the income of the head of the fund in 2015, according to the document, could be 340 thousand rubles a month. Therefore, they note in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, "the accrual of payments to the management and other employees of regional operators needs a centralized legal regulation."
Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Public Utilities of the Russian Federation Andrei Chibis, commenting on the appeal of the communists, noted that regional overhaul funds are non-profit organizations that are created by the authorities of the constituent entities of the Federation, which is why determining the salaries of fund managers is not the level of federal power.
In addition, the law clearly states that not a single penny of the people's money contributed by the owner can be spent on the maintenance of the fund, but can be spent only and exclusively on the overhaul of common property in apartment buildings, Andrey Chibis noted. - As for the introduction of salary caps, fund managers manage billions, and let's be blunt: people who are responsible for such amounts cannot receive 20 or 40 thousand rubles, as some deputies suggest. This populism and desire to earn political points in today's realities of election campaigns is understandable, but far from reality and from objectivity.
The Deputy Minister stressed that after the scandalous incident in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, the Ministry of Construction, together with other relevant departments, plans to promptly check all regions, and if such facts are revealed, special bodies will deal with “violators”.
The State Duma Committee on Housing Policy and Housing and Public Utilities evaluated the proposal of the deputies differently, but agreed on one thing: the salary of the employees of the regional operator should be established at the legislative level of the subjects of the Federation.
Andrei Rudenko, a member of the State Duma committee on housing policy and housing and communal services (A Just Russia), in a commentary to Izvestia, called the initiative of his colleagues the right proposal. He believes that many problems and corruption component in the field of overhaul can be associated with confusion in the legislation.
The situation itself is due to our confusion with this overhaul fund, because, according to federal law, the money collected from residents should be used to repair houses, and there is also a founder who gives money for the maintenance of this non-profit organization. It is local administration- explained the deputy. - The founders should decide how much money they are ready to allocate for the maintenance of this apparatus.
AT the federal law you can write down anything. Citizens' payments for major repairs are not spent on the maintenance and service of officials of regional operators - this is prohibited. The collected money goes exclusively to the overhaul, - he said. - The Fund is created by the authorities of the subject, and here there should be the responsibility of the regions.
According to Dmitry Kataev, co-chairman of the Housing Solidarity public movement, the initiative is correct, but it is unlikely to be effective.
Fund managers are officials. It is correct to calculate their salary from the average for the region or according to some similar system. Another thing is that we are not currently implementing a single correct principle. Because there will always be detours,” he said.
Dmitry Kataev believes that the salary cap may encourage a dishonest official to look for other ways to replenish his own pocket - to corruption.
It is enough for the head of the fund to move his fingers a little to include one house in the repair plan immediately, another - later, the third - even later, to influence the competition of contractors. Therefore, a low salary will stimulate him to this process, - he believes.
Overhaul is a “long-playing” topic that “all parties without exception are adopting,” Konstantin Kalachev, head of the Political Expert Group, is sure. In his opinion, this makes it possible to simplify the election program to literally two or three theses.
Taking into account the fact that approximately 80% of people in the region pay contributions for overhaul, the parties will tear this topic into pieces. Since citizens understand that they can’t get away from paying for overhaul, in my opinion, the topic of expanding benefits, which United Russia staked on, will be more productive, the expert noted. - Traditionally, the topic of housing and communal services is close to the "Socialist-Revolutionaries", but the Communists will not just give it away, their numerous initiatives testify to this.
So, for example, deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation proposed to “reduce the burden on the owners of apartment buildings” and establish a rate at which 15% of the funds for major repairs are provided by citizens, 85% by the state. And the deputies from the "Fair Russia" advocated the abolition of the payment of contributions for major repairs to pensioners over 80 years old. In turn, representatives of United Russia advised not to engage in populism on the topic of overhaul.
