Calculated average size of kickbacks under state procurement

The volume of the corruption market in accordance with state procurement is 6.6 trillion rubles, which is the third of the revenue part of the federal budget of Russia. This conclusion came at the Institute of State and Municipal HSE, writes RBC.

It was estimated that on average bribe costs companies applying for the StateContract, 22.5 percent of its sum. At the same time, 71 percent of the companies stated that they encountered corruption when passing competitive procedures. Despite the universal condemnation of corruption (83 percent of suppliers), they admitted that they were connected with kickbacks for the StateContract due to high competition in the market.

On December 9, the head of the Main Department of Economic Security and Countering Corruption (GEBIPK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Lieutenant Police Lieutenant, Andrei Kursnoenko, said that in the conditions of the pandemic, risks of use of fraudulent schemes are growing to the embezzlement of funds from the budget allocated to combat coronavirus infection. According to him, the police reveals criminal schemes to create the visibility of budget consumption for the cover of their embezzlement or the breakdown of the execution of state contracts allegedly due to a pandemic. The general indicated that most of all the risk of embezzlement of budget money falls on the areas of socio-economic support of the population and business, education, health care, where drugs and medical equipment for hospitals and a clinic are procured in the framework of countering the spread of coronavirus infection.

In October in the Amur region, investigators detained a fighter with corruption from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia upon receipt of a bribe. As established by the investigation, the head of the Regional Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Department received 300 thousand rubles from the head of a commercial organization at one of the parking lots of Blagoveshchensk. The resulting bribe was part of a total amount of 1.2 million rubles. It was planned to convey to the Russian police officer for assisting in the settlement of the dispute between the organization, as an executor of work under contract agreements, and their customer.

/Media reports.