Do you know how much has been allocated for road construction this year? 710 billion rubles.
To estimate how much of that they are planning to steal, you can look in open sources for information on how quickly the Rotenberg brothers are buying up various "Mostootryad" bridge-building firms and other contractors. This is going to be a Big Heist. If you're interested, take a look at an article by RosPil lawyer Andrei Mishchenkov on the effectiveness of road spending. All of the biggest tenders\auctions flagged by RosPil as suspicious are related to construction or, more often, road construction. But here we have a major problem that we cannot solve without you. Construction documentation is HELL. You can hide absolutely anything in it. Of course, a few experts in this field have signed up with us, but there is so much work and it is so complicated that the experts are already starting to hide from us. We need more people who really understand this area and are willing to sacrifice their personal time to work with us on specific projects. Here is a typical example. An interchange in Yekaterinburg. 6 billion rubles. In my subjective opinion, they want to steal at least a billion. I will write about it separately and in detail. We are hacking our way through as best we can. We do have expert help, but we need more. Contracting authorities dodge, twist, and try to confuse us. Sometimes they include the design documentation in the works, sometimes they do not. And that means, mind you, hundreds of millions of rubles. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) issues one ruling and then another. The latest one is generally in our favor, but the situation keeps shifting. So. What we constantly and urgently need is: Experts in road construction: cost estimators, designers, engineering survey specialists, actual builders, etc. If you know the issue inside out, that is good, but not enough. We file only well-substantiated complaints, so we need experts who, in addition to giving a general assessment of documentation intended for a "kickback scheme," can write exactly what the violation is. A formal expert opinion would, of course, make our task easier, but a description of the violation "in your own words" is perfectly acceptable too—the main thing is to substantiate those words. And by substantiation, we do not mean "that's just how me and Mikhalych have always done it," but references to any official documents from any government authority: laws and regulations, subordinate legislation, and advisory documents (for example, methodological guidelines, letters, or official clarifications). If you have this wonderful knowledge and are ready to spend your time fighting crooks, then write to me or, better yet, directly to RosPil coordinator Konstantin at rospil2011@gmail.com. Thank you P.S. And of course we always need insiders: if you know how your governor and the deputy overseeing the sector stole money from road construction, let us know and we will make life painful for them.