Well, after the recent news, it would seem like the perfect time to withdraw the money from RosPil and make a run for it.
Just kidding.
Sooner or later, we ourselves will make the crooks run.
and we’ll take away their international passports while we’re at it—they won’t get far
The day before yesterday, on May 10, 2011, the first actual withdrawal was made from the RosPil account. Until then, there had only been deposits.
Here’s the report:
(We opened the account with Alfa-Bank specifically because it had the lowest fees. By the way, an amusing detail: the 10,000 rubles you can see on the first line of the screenshot are obviously these very same ten thousand. So the idea that “RosPil is financed by fugitive rich people from abroad” does have some basis after all.) As those who follow RosPil will remember, there are currently three full-time staff members working there: Coordinator — Konstantin Kalmykov Lawyer — Lyubov Fedeneva Lawyer — Andrei Mishchenkov Each earns a salary of 60,000 rubles per month. Including the 13% personal income tax, that comes to 69,000 rubles. Fedeneva has already worked for two months. 138,000 rubles — Fedeneva’s salary (March and April 2011) 69,000 rubles — Mishchenkov’s salary (for April 2011) 69,000 rubles — Kalmykov’s salary (for April 2011) Total payroll for April: 276,000 rubles. Including the 3% Yandex.Money system fee, we had to withdraw 284,536 rubles and 8 kopecks. In addition, every month I, as the employer, must pay insurance contributions into the state funds. The total amount of contributions for all RosPil employees is: Pension Fund (insurance portion) — 55,200 rubles Pension Fund (funded portion) — 16,560 rubles Federal Mandatory Medical Insurance Fund (FFOMS) — 8,556 rubles Territorial Mandatory Medical Insurance Fund (TFOMS) — 5,520 rubles Thus, the total amount of insurance contributions for March–April comes to 85,836 rubles. Given the overall Yandex.Money limit on withdrawing funds into “real money” (300,000 rubles per month), we had to transfer this money to another Yandex.Money account, and then withdraw the funds from that second account.
Including the fee for transferring money between Yandex.Money accounts (0.5%) and the system’s withdrawal fee (3%), we transferred 88,935 rubles and 40 kopecks to another account. So, in total: Total payments for April: 361,836 rubles. Total amount withdrawn from the account as of now: 373,471 rubles and 48 kopecks.
In the near future, we’ll add a “spending report” section on RosPil. It will include all the details, receipts, accounting entries, explanations, and so on. If anyone has questions about money transfers, ask here and Konstantin will answer. One more piece of news: Right now RosPil displays two project performance indicators: “Fraud uncovered” and “Fraud stopped.” These indicators draw a lot of criticism from public procurement experts. They look nice, but in substantive terms they do not say very much. We are introducing new statistical indicators for our work: number of complaints (petitions) filed with the FAS (Federal Antimonopoly Service) number of complaints (petitions) found to be justified (the ratio between points one and two will be the key indicator for both the project and each individual staff member) total value of suspicious/corrupt procurements stopped (the total value of procurement contracts successfully challenged before the FAS; procurements canceled by contracting authorities after the challenge began) number of complaints filed with regulatory and oversight bodies (the prosecutor’s office, executive authorities, etc.) number of court cases number of court rulings in our favor We’ll keep refining these indicators as we go, so that you have more ways to judge how effectively your money is being spent. And let me remind you that you can always see what the lawyers are working on right here and right here.