You're wrong to laugh at the famous photo of Ramzan Kadyrov holding a gold pistol.
Russia's special forces will be armed with the same kind as well. Only, so as not to give away those brave commandos with the gleam of golden weapons, they will be bought ordinary pistols at the price of gold ones. Read our RosPil anti-corruption activist Andrei on the case he is handling.
http://zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/orders/info/common_info/show?source=EPZ¬ificationId=7226765
http://zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/orders/info/common_info/show?source=EPZ¬ificationId=7226753 They are procuring Glock pistols. It's a good weapon.
But what caught RosPil's attention was the price. Rosoboronpostavka wants to buy a Glock 17 pistol for 210,000 rubles. A Glock 26 pistol — for 191,000 rubles. Uhhhh.... dear Rosoboronpostavka, these are pistols, not submarines. Any one of us can check in ten seconds what Glock pistols cost in any configuration. This is a very popular weapon. The manufacturer's suggested price is $ 599 In Moscow, even with the insane Moscow markup, you can still buy one retail at a shooting club for 65,000 rubles, including storage fees at the club itself. And in fact, as i**passerby **correctly calculated , the cost of the package cannot exceed 51,000 rubles. That means the price is inflated fourfold. Or, to put it another way: when one pistol is procured, three times its actual price will be stolen. Can you imagine how much these people steal when procuring tanks, submarines, and combat killer dolphins, if they're skimming this much on pistols whose price anyone can check? My dear Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin and Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu!
I would very much like you to look into this situation. Not just cancel the procurement, as usual, but actually investigate it substantively. It's obvious that this is a scheme under which roughly 50 million rubles will be stolen. There are specific people who agreed to this. There are people who drafted the technical specifications. There are people who approved them. A criminal group. What's more, we already even understand what will happen next. Most likely, the tender will be won by the company "Promtekhnologii": GK "Promtekhnologii" and Glock GmbH have signed a long-term agreement granting exclusive rights to assemble and directly sell Glock™ pistols. Starting in July 2012, Promtekhnologii Group enters the Russian arms market with a line of Glock™ pistols assembled at the facilities of the Moscow weapons plant. http://www.orsis.com/about/news/78879/ This is the very company where Alexei Rogozin (born 1983) got a job as deputy general director and worked for some time, before heading another defense-industry-related enterprise — the Aleksin Chemical Plant.
And then an awful, unpleasant, and ambiguous situation will arise — one we all want to avoid. Let's avoid it. We look forward to your response. And finally, I'd like to remind everyone: Ru*ssia will allocate €50**0 billion to rearm the army by 2020. **In addition, another $100 billion will be earmarked for the technical modernization of defense-industry enterprises, **Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said. *http://www.vestifinance.ru/articles/32041 Given: In Rosoboronpostavka's pistol procurements, 300% of their value is being stolen. €500 billion will be spent on rearming the army. Question: how many palaces on the French Riviera will appear thanks to the rearmament of the Russian Army, if the proportions of theft remain stable and uniform? PS Complaints about the RosPil procurement have, of course, been filed.