How they saw at Rusnano: where Chubais's company spends billions of state money. Chubais in court stood up for the former head of Rusnano

Shortly before the new year, the chairman of the board of Rusnano, Anatoly Chubais, found himself at the center of a scandal. His speech at a corporate event, in which he claimed that "we have a lot of money" and promised employees double bonuses against the backdrop of the success of Rusnano, got into the network. Lawyer Ilya Remeslo verifies Chubais's words with the company's documents and finds out in what financial condition it really is, how Rusnano reports on its work, and what huge sums of the state budget are spent on.

Let's start with the main thing - with the structure. Rusnano is a company founded by the state and created entirely with state money. According to the documents, over the entire period of the company's existence, 182 billion rubles were allocated from the budget.

According to official data, in addition to the main legal entity (OJSC Rusnano), the Rusnano group also includes several subsidiaries, including LLC Managing Company Rusnano.

In 2014, the management structure at Rusnano changed. Chubais officially resigned from the position of Chairman of the Management Board of OJSC Rusnano and headed the Management Company Rusnano (where he is a minority shareholder). Most of the employees followed Chubais into the same company. Then, an agreement was concluded between OJSC Rusnano and MC Rusnano, according to which management functions are transferred to the MC.

Why did they do it?

3.5 billion for effective managers

Let's go back to spending optimization.

Management costs have not decreased - they have grown by half a billion rubles! Chubais's company attributes this to "factors of the transition period." What is hidden behind this vague concept, they do not consider it necessary to explain to us.

Reporting fraud

Maybe we are just finding fault, and all these small expenses more than compensate for the results of the work of the management company "Rusnano"?

To assess the results of the work, let's take a look at the main document of the company - the development strategy until 2020.

When the Rusnano MC was just created, it was planned that in 2015, upon reaching certain indicators, it would be gradually sold to private investors. For example, the volume of product sales was supposed to reach 300 billion rubles a year.

Guess what has become of the planned indicators and have private investors acquired the Rusnano Management Company? Chubais, answering the relevant question from journalists, showed some modesty - "the issue is being discussed."

Rusnano interprets the concept of "production volume" in its own way. The numbers in the company's report are impressive. The plan was overfulfilled!

Meanwhile, in a note in small print ...

Surprisingly, the sales volume of Rusnano includes products of all companies in which the company has invested or provided borrowed funds. Without any assessment of the volume and degree of investment impact. Convenient: in order to ascribe to yourself the merits of someone else's company, you just need to conclude an agreement with this company, and you can safely credit all the products of this company to yourself.

It is significant that the Accounts Chamber during the inspection of Rusnano found exactly the same thing.

14,000,000,000 losses

Last year, colorful news spread around all news agencies: "By the end of 2014, Rusnano reached a net profit of 8 billion rubles."

To be convinced of such impressive results, let's see what the internal documents say about this. After all, the company worked in 2011-2012 with a loss of almost 50 billion rubles, and then suddenly such an outstanding result.

But in the documents we find ... losses in the amount of 14.6 billion rubles. What's the catch?

If you carefully read the news above, you can be convinced that it is not about JSC "Rusnano" itself, but about the "group of companies Rusnano". This group includes the eponymous management company, which receives billions of money "for management" annually, and other smaller companies. That is, shifting money from one pocket to another and changing the names in the press release, they are trying to convince us that 3.5 billion a year at Rusnano Management Company is not an expense, but a “net profit”.

Moreover, Rusnano is unprofitable to such an extent that it directly violates Russian law and faces the threat of liquidation. We look at the report on the company's net asset value:

Side note: in accordance with the law on joint stock companies, if a company has negative net assets, then it must either pay off debts or increase its authorized capital. If this state continues for two years or more, then the company is obliged to liquidate.

Investment attractiveness

Anatoly Chubais reports on attracting investments with enviable regularity. The company's press releases mentioned both Chinese and Taiwanese funds (with the latter, however, something went wrong).

When it comes to investments, Rusnano is again practicing language constructions:

We read carefully: 150 million dollars (ie money) were raised because “legal obligations” were received.

Any financial or legal dictionary will confirm that investments are funds. Accordingly, it is unacceptable to replace the availability of actually attracted money (investments) with the "obligations" of certain investors.

It is not known whether investors will comply with them and whether they are in a position to finance at all in such a volume. But these little things don't bother effective investment hunters. The main thing is to report.

Public procurement without competition

With the transfer of management functions to Rusnano, it has become much more difficult to find out the company's expenses (whether this was the initial idea when creating the management company is not clear, but this is how it looks). Almost nothing is said about the expenses of the management company in the annual report, so the picture had to be restored using data on public procurement.

Despite the agreement with the management company, state purchases are carried out by OJSC Rusnano itself. Moreover, b O Most of them are carried out without competitive procedures - 181 million rubles were spent under the “purchase from a single customer” scheme.

As for the purchases of the management company itself, they are very diverse. There are many relatively small (1-5 million rubles) purchases with the participation of foreign law firms. In total, more than 100 million rubles were spent on them (it seems that there are simply no lawyers in the company, and any legal issue is transferred to foreign "outsourcing").

Almost all large purchases in the company are made bypassing competitive procedures. A “request for proposals” scheme is used, in which the customer company itself chooses with whom to conclude an agreement, without holding a tender and reducing the amount. The managers of Rusnano retained the right to do without bidding when it suits them.

115,000,000 for protection

From the Rusnano procurement database, we learn that in 2014 a security contract was concluded with the Svyatovit-A company.

The amount of the contract is 115 million rubles. Neither in the documentation for the public procurement, nor in the contract anywhere is it said for how long this amount is due. But the draft agreement says that "the Contractor's services are monthly payable in the amount agreed upon by Appendix No. 1, regardless of the volume of services provided by the Contractor in the billing month" (at the same time, funny as it may seem, nothing is specified in Appendix No. 1).

That is, the security company can do nothing and calmly receive 115 million rubles from Rusnano.

What prevented a full-fledged auction by choosing a contractor for a reasonable price?

The Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation is in charge.

Years go by, but nothing changes at Rusnano. A relative of one of the nano-leaders turned out to be the owner of this security company. At the same time, clause 1 of the Rusnano Management Company strategy instructs employees to avoid conflicts of interest.

70,000,000 per secretary

On the resource RuPosters an exhaustive, voluminous article was published-investigation of what is happening with the colossal money allocated for Rusnano. I bring it to your attention. It presents all the necessary facts to understand what is happening in this company under the leadership of A.B. Chubais.

It became known yesterday that the Russian government had provided Rusnano with state guarantees in the amount of 35.5 billion rubles. A month earlier, the head of the company, Anatoly Chubais, assured the president that state funds would no longer be required: “Today, due to refunds and exits from projects, we are already working in a mode where we do not even raise the issue of budget appropriations.” Lawyer Ilya Remeslo shows what the budget billions of Rusnano are spent on and how Anatoly Chubais's company of the same name received a contract to manage the Russian nanoindustry.

In this case, a request for proposals scheme was used, in which the customer chooses from the bidders not on the basis of an auction, but the one who seems most worthy to the customer. Therefore, there was no reduction in the initial price of the service.

The initial contract price of 30 million is set arbitrarily - "because we decided so."

Without competition, related IT specialists were also hired: Rusnano generously paid more than 100 million rubles for the work of system administrators.

Legal opinions for tens of millions

It would be wrong to say that Rusnano Management Company does not work, but is only engaged in promotion on the Internet. It also serves as a good feeding trough for Western law firms.

In "Rusnano" they love them so much that they generously give them orders without a competition. For a year, the costs of lawyers and consultants are estimated at hundreds of millions of rubles. One gets the impression that the company simply does not have its own lawyers, the company turns to outside lawyers for the slightest reason. And for some reason, the executors are almost always expensive foreign firms.

For example, the firm "Dentons" received more than 20 million for ... legal advice on just one issue.

Based on my own experience in legal consulting, I will explain whether this is a lot or a little - 20 million for one-time legal services.

The average cost of a complex consultation with a good lawyer does not exceed 100,000 rubles.

The cost of the work of the most expensive lawyers and attorneys in Moscow serving Western companies (that is, living at Western rates) is on average one and a half to two thousand dollars per hour of work. For especially complex legal advice (including on foreign law), an invoice is issued in the amount of 10-20 thousand dollars.

It turns out that the price of the services of Chubais's lawyers hired without competition is an order of magnitude higher. What prevented an open tender to reduce the price? Let me remind you once again - according to the regulations of the Rusnano Management Company, a purchase without a tender from a single supplier is allowed only in extreme circumstances.

Rusnano against the state: offshore financial consultant for 200 million

All these pranks fade away when effective managers finally get down to their main job - managing nanotechnology.

Typical purchase for 206 million (!) For "investment banking":

Of course, everything is "transparent and competitive" - ​​it was also given without a tender, to the only supplier. Which is ... the Cypriot offshore Novomet Oil Services Holding Limited.

Apparently, Rusnano is not aware that deoffshorization is one of the most important directions of the state's economic policy. Let me remind you that President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning government purchases from offshore companies.

So far, this law applies only to state bodies, and not to state-owned companies. But the trend is set quite obvious: “Who wants to keep money somewhere abroad - please. The law does not prohibit this, but the withdrawal of financial resources from the sectoral turnover through shell companies is unacceptable. "

Knowing this position of the president, Rusnano Management Company gives the offshore purchase for more than 200 million rubles without holding a tender. What is this, if not disregard for the position of the head of state on a matter of principle?

The subject of the transaction is also of interest - the actions that the offshore will have to perform for a huge reward:

For this insane amount of money, the offshore company will look for a buyer for the Rusnano stake ... in the offshore itself! The most natural legal nonsense.

It is not known what prevented effective managers from selling the shares that they had previously bought, and why a full-fledged competition was not held again.

Little light is shed on this story by media publications. We are talking about the withdrawal of Rusnano from another dubious project for the construction of pumps, in which billions of rubles were invested. According to media reports, Russian oil workers criticized these "nanopumps" for their inefficiency.

The buyer of the "nanopumps" was predictably not found. As a result, Chubais's company extended the sale of the block of shares.

Values ​​and corporate culture

If you think that the purchases of the Rusnano Management Company have reached the bottom at this point, you are deeply mistaken.

As a respectable organization, Chubais' company pays special attention to values ​​and corporate culture. The top manager of Rusnano knows that the main thing is not the result (ie profit), but the management process. In the process, effective managers get tired, bored, and decide to entertain themselves with something out of the ordinary.

The order for the "development of Rusnano values" looks like this:

Only a little over 5 million rubles - and Chubais's company received what the absence of which prevents it from becoming a successful company - values.

After developing the values, it was decided to take seriously the corporate culture and improve the level of qualifications of employees. Rusnano decided to order trainings on the topic "Motivation, potential and risk factors in a career."

The list of works on this public procurement is pleasing to the eye: there are both ethical models and company traditions. In short, everything without which the creation of nanotechnology is impossible.

All this would be funny if it were about the funds of a private company - at least hire clowns instead of managers in the office, have as much fun as you can for your money.

But here we are talking about fun at public expense. If in “Rusnano” it is considered normal to spend 5 million on “valuables”, then what can we say about some pitiful corporate events?

Why organs are inactive

As I have already noted, the law on procurement of state-owned companies is formulated in such a way that it provides a huge scope for abuse. It is necessary to impose strict restrictions on the spending of state-owned companies. Establish that money can be spent exclusively on core activities. Introduce a ban on squandering money on foreign lawyers and other items of expenditure that can be imported.

Secondly, only their participants have the right to file complaints about state purchases of state-owned companies, which also reduces the possibilities for public control.

Let me remind you once again that we are not talking about individual shortcomings in the activities of a successful company as a whole. Rusnano incurred 13 billion rubles in losses from ineffective projects, and the Accounts Chamber recognized half of all projects of the state corporation as failures.

This state of affairs in the Rusnano Management Company will remain unchanged exactly until the state runs out of patience and the will to suppress financial chaos appears. Judging by the latest searches and the intensification of criminal cases against the company's patrons, this moment may be closer than ever.

An exhaustive, voluminous investigation article about what is happening with the colossal money allocated for Rusnano.

It became known yesterday that the Russian government had provided Rusnano with state guarantees in the amount of 35.5 billion rubles. A month earlier, the head of the company, Anatoly Chubais, assured the president that state funds would no longer be required: "Today, due to refunds and exits from projects, we are already working in a mode where we do not even raise the issue of budget appropriations." Lawyer Ilya Remeslo shows what the budget billions of Rusnano are spent on and how Anatoly Chubais's company of the same name received a contract to manage the Russian nanoindustry.

In the first part of the investigation into the Chubais company, from which, according to some information, the management of the organization went into a rage, we analyzed the activities, finances and spending of JSC Rusnano. As a result of the loud publication, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Prosecutor General's Office ordered Rusnano to report on the questions I had asked, which entailed a violent reaction from the "nanomechanics" and promises to sue me.

While the valiant managers are preparing the lawsuit, I will continue.

In recent months, even more curious facts have been discovered concerning Rusnano Managing Company LLC. It is headed by Anatoly Chubais, who also owns a stake in the company. It is this organization that manages AO Rusnano for a modest remuneration - 19 billion over 5 years, that is, about 4 billion rubles a year.

How the management company got the right to manage, where this huge money is spent - has been a mystery until now. Rusnano Management Company, unlike the company it controls, does not publish official reports on its activities. Financial indicators are absent even in paid databases, so information had to be obtained bit by bit from different sources.

Document search

Before starting the investigation, as a conscientious author, I asked Rusnano for documents related to the company's activities:

From the answer it followed that on the Rusnano website I can familiarize myself with the reports of the management company. However, the site contains only reports of JSC "Rusnano", not the management company. Almost identical names make it easy to confuse anyone from the outside. Given the apparent reluctance of Rusnano to assist the investigation, I had to obtain information on my own.

The results exceeded all possible expectations.

19 billion solution

Let's start with how RUSNANO AM acquired the right to manage Chubais's main company. To begin with, I would like to note that according to the law, any transactions involving state-owned companies are possible only within the framework of a competition (public procurement). The law obliges state-owned companies to conduct a competitive procedure in order to choose the most favorable price / quality ratio of services. What the competition looked like in the case of Rusnano:

Purchase from a single participant, no other bidders, no price reduction, no business case. This is a $ 19 billion "transparent purchase." How was this documented?

I have at my disposal the original minutes of the Rusnano procurement commission with live signatures of the responsible persons (the full document is available here), with the light hand of which Chubais's company received the right to manage:

To transfer the right to manage Rusnano, one more "transparent procedure" was enough - a vote of eight members of the procurement commission.

Please note: there is a reference to clause 18.12 of the Procurement Regulations developed by JSC Rusnano itself. You will be surprised, but this clause officially allows the company not to conduct competitive procedures in the event that a purchase is carried out from "their" company, i.e. created by JSC "Rusnano".

All ingenious is simple:

1) We include the clause on not holding a tender for a participant - his company in the Procurement Regulations;

2) We create our own management company;

3) We give her the right to manage for 5 billion a year without a competition.

Profit: we get the right to spend budget billions uncontrollably and unaccountably through Rusnano Management Company. Let the public continue to read the reports of AO Rusnano on great profits, while the money is being mastered by the MC Rusnano without any reporting or outside attention.

Salary and bonuses for nanomanagers

What can you spend 5 billion a year on?

The main expense item of the Rusnano Management Company is the salary of employees, which includes various bonuses - even the right to acquire shares in the authorized capital of the company.

All this is very reminiscent of the socialist "people's enterprises", in which employees themselves are the owners of the company and prosper in every possible way. This "market approach" looks especially good in times of crisis. Membership in the CPSU and studies at a Soviet economic university left an indelible imprint on Anatoly Chubais.

As you might guess, information about the salaries of the top management of the Rusnano Management Company is a secret behind seven seals. Chubais, as the head of a state-owned company, is not required to disclose his income. According to the law, the heads of state-owned companies and corporations, 100% owned by the state, have such a duty.

However, LLC "UK Rusnano" belongs to the state only 99%, and 1% belongs to Chubais himself. Comfortable? Comfortable.

3.7 billion for ongoing operations

But back to the management company. Most of the money allocated to him (3.7 billion rubles) was spent on various purchases. Let me emphasize - not the costs of building factories or investments. These are expenses for current activities.

The main item of expenditure is services rendered by third parties in favor of Rusnano Management Company, in the amount of 2.5 billion.

How are state purchases regulated in the Rusnano Management Company? The existing law No. 223-FZ allows state-owned companies to include practically any conditions in their procurement regulations. The principle "There is an exception for every rule" works.

This is actively used by the Rusnano Management Company - the procurement regulations developed by them (full text), although they declare "openness and competitiveness," but at the same time contain a huge number of loopholes that allow either not to hold a procurement tender at all, or to purchase the necessary service from the only one (in advance specific) supplier.

Let's remember the main thing: the general rule is the priority of competitive purchases, and purchases without a competition are allowed only in extreme circumstances.

PR and IT specialists: winners of failed millionth "contests"

What features of its activities does the Rusnano Management Company hide? I have analyzed hundreds of government purchases and present to your attention the largest and most curious ones.

One of the main costs of Rusnano is public relations on the Internet, as evidenced by the large number of relevant government purchases. Sometimes for the sake of fame, you have to make sacrifices. As, for example, in this competition for the right to accompany Rusnano in social networks:

Look carefully: the purchase was officially declared invalid - only one application remained, and there is no competition with one application, and in theory the procedure should be started anew.

But there is still a winner. This is Denis Terekhov's Social Networks company, familiar to us from a previous investigation. Which, by the way, is an close friend of Alexei Navalny and Nikita Belykh.

A very convenient "no alternative" scheme of work: I eliminated two inconvenient bidders for the purchase, and with the third, "my own", I entered into an agreement - without holding a new tender. Competitiveness and transparency squared.

The price for several hours of work is only half a million rubles, and of course again by direct purchase from a single supplier, without a competition.

It would be naive to think that the Rusnano management company will limit itself to a measly 9 million for PR in social networks. Another similar purchase - already for 30 million. Won company "Picheski" :

In this case, a request for proposals scheme was used, in which the customer chooses from the bidders not on the basis of an auction, but the one who seems most worthy to the customer. Therefore, there was no reduction in the initial price of the service.

The initial contract price of 30 million is set arbitrarily - "because we decided so."

Related IT specialists were also hired without competition: Rusnano generously paid more than 100 million rubles for the work of system administrators.

Legal opinions for tens of millions

It would be wrong to say that Rusnano Management Company does not work, but is only engaged in promotion on the Internet. It also serves as a good feeding trough for Western law firms.

In "Rusnano" they are so loved that they generously give them orders without a competition. For a year, the costs of lawyers and consultants are estimated at hundreds of millions of rubles. One gets the impression that the company simply does not have its own lawyers, the company turns to outside lawyers for the slightest reason. And for some reason, the executors are almost always expensive foreign firms.

For example, the firm "Dentons" received more than 20 million for ... legal advice on just one issue.

Based on my own experience in legal consulting, I will explain whether this is a lot or a little - 20 million for one-time legal services.

The average cost of a complex consultation with a good lawyer does not exceed 100,000 rubles.

The cost of the work of the most expensive lawyers and attorneys in Moscow serving Western companies (that is, living at Western rates) is on average one and a half to two thousand dollars per hour of work. For especially complex legal advice (including on foreign law), an invoice is issued in the amount of 10-20 thousand dollars.

It turns out that the price of the services of Chubais's lawyers hired without competition is an order of magnitude higher. What prevented an open tender to reduce the price? Let me remind you once again - according to the regulations of the Rusnano Management Company, purchase without a tender from a single supplier is allowed only in extreme circumstances.

Rusnano against the state: offshore financial consultant for 200 million

All these pranks fade away when effective managers finally get down to their main job - managing nanotechnology.

Typical 206 million (!) Purchase for "investment banking":

Of course, everything is "transparent and competitive" - ​​it was also given without competition to the only supplier. Which is ... the Cypriot offshore Novomet Oil Services Holding Limited.

Apparently, Rusnano is not aware that deoffshorization is one of the most important directions of the state's economic policy. Let me remind you that President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning government purchases from offshore companies.

So far, this law applies only to state bodies, and not to state-owned companies. But the trend is set quite obvious: "Who wants to keep money somewhere abroad - please. The law does not prohibit this, but the withdrawal of financial resources from the industry through shell companies is unacceptable."

Knowing this position of the president, the Rusnano Management Company gives the offshore a purchase for more than 200 million rubles without a tender. What is this, if not disregard for the position of the head of state on a matter of principle?

The subject of the transaction is also of interest - the actions that the offshore will have to perform for a huge reward:

For this insane amount of money, the offshore company will look for the buyer of the Rusnano stake ... in the offshore itself! The most natural legal nonsense.

It is not known what prevented effective managers from selling the shares that they had previously bought, and why a full-fledged competition was not held again.

Little light is shed on this story by media publications. We are talking about the withdrawal of Rusnano from another dubious project for the construction of pumps, in which billions of rubles were invested. According to media reports, Russian oil workers criticized these "nanopumps" for their inefficiency.

The buyer of the "nanopumps" was predictably not found. As a result, Chubais's company extended the sale of the block of shares.

Values ​​and corporate culture

If you think that Rusnano's purchases have reached the bottom at this point, you are deeply mistaken.

As a respectable organization, Chubais' company pays special attention to values ​​and corporate culture. The top manager of Rusnano knows that the main thing is not the result (ie profit), but the management process. In the process, effective managers get tired, bored, and decide to entertain themselves with something out of the ordinary.

The order for "development of Rusnano values" looks like this:

Only a little over 5 million rubles - and Chubais's company received what the absence of which prevents it from becoming a successful company - values.

After developing the values, it was decided to take seriously the corporate culture and improve the level of qualifications of employees. Rusnano decided to order trainings on the topic "Motivation, potential and risk factors in a career."

The list of works on this public procurement is pleasing to the eye: there are both ethical models and company traditions. In short, everything without which the creation of nanotechnology is impossible.

All this would be funny if it were about the funds of a private company - at least hire clowns instead of managers in the office, have as much fun as you can for your money.

But here we are talking about fun at public expense. If in "Rusnano" it is considered normal to spend 5 million on "values", then what can we say about some pitiful corporate events?

Why organs are inactive

As I have already noted, the law on procurement of state-owned companies is formulated in such a way that it provides a huge scope for abuse. It is necessary to impose strict restrictions on the spending of state-owned companies. Establish that money can be spent exclusively on core activities. Introduce a ban on squandering money on foreign lawyers and other items of expenditure that can be imported.

Secondly, only their participants have the right to file complaints about state purchases of state-owned companies, which also reduces the possibilities for public control.

Let me remind you once again that we are not talking about individual shortcomings in the activities of a successful company as a whole. Rusnano incurred 13 billion rubles in losses from ineffective projects, and the Accounts Chamber recognized half of all projects of the state corporation as failed.

This state of affairs in the Rusnano Management Company will remain unchanged exactly until the state runs out of patience and the will to suppress financial chaos appears. Judging by the latest searches and the intensification of criminal cases against the company's patrons, this moment may be closer than ever.

Ilya Craft

The chairman of the board of Rusnano, Anatoly Chubais, testified in the case of the ex-head of the state corporation Leonid Melamed, accused of embezzling 220 million rubles. Chubais said that he himself made decisions that are imputed to Melamed as criminal

Anatoly Chubais at the Cheryomushkinsky court (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC)

The chairman of the board of Rusnano, Anatoly Chubais, testified in court in the criminal case of his predecessor Leonid Melamed and former financial director of the corporation Svyatoslav Ponurov, who are accused of embezzling 220 million rubles.

Chubais said that he himself, and not Melamed, decided to involve an investment consultant in the work of Rusnano, and the contract with the Alemar corporation, which, according to the prosecution, was controlled by Melamed, was concluded by the decision of the Rusnano board. In addition, Melamed, according to him, at that time was not a shareholder of Alemar, but only a vice president. Company executives drew attention to the conflict of interest, but concluded that the deal was correct.

The state prosecution believes that in 2008 Rusnano under the leadership of Melamed signed contracts with Alemar, which, according to the investigation and the prosecutor's office, was co-owned by Melamed himself. The contracts assumed that Alemar would provide Rusnano with consulting services worth 220 million rubles. The money for these purposes was allocated from the budget. Under the guise of these services, Ponurov and another accused - Melamed's deputy Andrei Malyshev (left for the UK, was arrested in absentia) - for six months illegally withdrawn funds from the company that were supposed to become a "golden parachute" for Melamed, the state prosecution believes.

Leonid Melamed (Photo: Sergey Fadeichev / TASS)

"Brilliant offer"

Rusnano was founded in 2007 and during a year of work Melamed only managed to find premises, collect the minimum necessary personnel and start working on the selection of applications for financing investment projects, Chubais said. According to him, Melamed's task was "the establishment of business processes, but not the real financing of projects."

“When I arrived, there were no approved projects. We were actively criticized, including by your colleagues, because the corporation does not finance projects, but simply lives on a deposit issued by the state, ”Chubais recalled, answering a question from the state prosecutor. Taking the position of chairman of the board, Chubais realized that the corporation needed a financial advisor.

“There were a colossal number of applications for funding, no less than half a thousand, and we were obliged to work with everyone. Five or six people were involved in their analysis. In total, we employed about a quarter of the required staff, - Chubais explained. - It was necessary to offer a systemic solution on how to reduce the risk of investing money in meaningless projects. That is why I personally - I want to emphasize this - proposed the initiative that it is necessary to attract an investment consultant. The Board supported my initiative. "

Rusnano announced a tender for which Ponurov was responsible. It was attended by four or five companies, including Alemar. “I also remember that there was FC Otkritie, which lost, and other serious names. The tender was conducted in strict accordance with our rules. Although we were not obliged to conduct a tender at all. Alemar won an absolutely legal and justified victory, ”Chubais said. According to him, the main criterion in the selection of the consultant was the price, but the tender commission also took into account the experience and qualifications of the participants; "The results of the tender were presented to the board and the board approved them." Chubais assessed Alemar's proposal as “brilliant”.

Conflict of interests

The affiliation of Alemar with Melamed was discussed by the management of Rusnano, Chubais stressed. It was decided that the conclusion of a contract with the corporation is permissible. “Our lawyers had different opinions on this matter. We received documents that Melamed is no longer a shareholder of Alemar, but is a vice president. We had doubts and we brought the discussion of this issue to the board. Nobody objected there, a decision was made unanimously to approve the agreement, ”Chubais said.

"Did you see a conflict of interest in this?" - clarified one of the state prosecutors. “I said exactly the opposite. I saw the conflict and that is why I brought the issue up for discussion, ”the witness said.

According to Chubais, the cost of the contract with Alemar is about 225 million rubles. - was not significant enough to bring the discussion of the deal to the governing body. “According to the law, the supervisory board discusses transactions worth over 1% of the authorized capital. The cost of the contract with Alemar was much lower, ”he said.

According to Chubais, the attraction of Alemar helped to save about 10 billion rubles for the state corporation, as well as earn a significant amount.

“When the criminal case was opened, we conducted an independent investigation in order to base ourselves not on emotions, but on facts. And this investigation showed that the conclusion of this agreement did not cause any damage to the corporation. I want to confirm this one more time. Moreover, I unequivocally believe that the agreement was not only legal and not only fully implemented, but absolutely necessary, ”he said.

When the state prosecutor asked whether Chubais maintains contact with the defendant who had left Malyshev, the head of Rusnano replied: "I support." "Do you know where he is?" - asked the prosecutor. “It's your job to look for him,” Chubais replied.

Anatoly Chubais gives an interview after the court session (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC)

Melamed case

In 2013, the Accounts Chamber found many violations in Rusnano, which became grounds for abuse of power, fraud and other crimes. Until 2015, these cases were not actually investigated, meanwhile, several top managers of the state corporation.

In early May, the Prosecutor General's Office on the case. Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Grin explained this by "gross violations of the provisions of the criminal procedure legislation" committed during the investigation. The head of the supervisory department Yuri Chaika on the same day, and the case was sent to court.

Rusnano's lawyer Alexander Asnis stood up for Melamed - he stated that the state-owned company had not suffered any damage from the actions of the accused. Rosatom CEO Sergei Kiriyenko also signed a positive statement to Melamed.

Now the ICR is investigating a case of abuse of power against the managing director for investment activities of Rusnano, as well as a case of embezzlement and money laundering against the leaders of NTpharma.

Featuring: Alexandra Fedotova