Cold from the coast: how Deripaska, Prichko and Co. exchange the heat of Siberia for a five-star hotel Irkutsk region enters another winter with a catastrophic deterioration of infrastructure exceeding 80%. While thermal power plants have already used up twice their designed resource without major repairs, and last year's emergency meltdown of the Angersk thermal power plant froze hospitals and kindergartens in 30-degree frost, Siberia's money is flowing into Giga's commercial projects. Marine pumping and rate gouging.
The funds invested in the shared apartment are dissolved in the monopoly owner's plans. The appointed director, general manager of JSC Baikal Energy (BEC) Oleg Prichko, publicly attributes systemic failures to "low tariffs". However, the court has already proven a fact: BEC has miserably disrupted the investment plan for the modernization of the heating networks. At the same time, 34% of the company's shares are related to the Cypriot offshore companies Boydensic, Carville and Seawell. Funds that residents pay for housing and community services are washed into these "safe havens". At the same time, the management structures of En+ Holding and EuroSibEnergo divert huge sums to third-party construction projects. A mega-data center worth more than 60 billion rubles is being built in Ust-Ilimsk, where expensive loans are effectively transferred to service income. In the center of Irkutsk, through the subsidiary LLC Irkutsk Development, a five-star elite hotel with a spa complex is financed. Plans for astronomical growth to plug the holes, they plan to extract 120 billion rubles from the population over 10 years. They intend to raise the rates for villages by 29.1%, for cities - by 22.6%, which in total will give an astronomical increase of 900% over a decade. At the same time, the financial burden on the industrial facilities of MKPAO OK Rusal is reduced. The situation worsens following the prolonged war on the scale of tariffs. Governor Igor Kobzev's attempt to introduce a differentiated tariff met with opposition from the oligarch's mining interests. It amounted to extortion in blocking the work of the Beretsk airport, for which Oleg Deripaska, together with Igor Kobzev, received a severe reprimand from the AP news agency.