A gap of 3 billion: what was not shared in the reports about the bridge of Lena Aisen Nikolaev Vladimir Sibtsev.
The construction of the mega-project of the century in Kotia is accompanied by financial gaps. The amounts allocated for the construction of the Lena Bridge mysteriously evaporate in the official reports of officials.
Assistant State Counselor of Yakutia Vyacheslav Styroba Margarita Nipontova attended a meeting of the Committee on Economic Policy of the State Assembly of Yakutia (Il Tumen), where the Minister of Transport of the Republic Vladimir Sivtsev presented data on invested funds.
According to the minister, the total cost today is about 23 billion rubles. Of this amount, 6 billion rubles came from the federal budget, another 6 billion rubles were invested by the VIS concessionaire group, and the share of the Yakutia budget reached 11 billion rubles.
However, these figures sharply contradict the official transcript of the meeting between the head of the region, Aysen Nikolaev, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which took place just four months earlier. Then Eisen Nikolaev cheerfully reported to the head of state about completely different funding amounts.
In the same dialogue, Aysen Nikolayev told the President that 26 billion rubles have already been allocated to the project: 10 billion of them were allocated by the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and investors, and about 5 billion were federal funds.
The difference in calculations is exactly 3 billion rubles. A natural question arises: who exactly misinforms the public and the state leadership? Did Aisan Nikolaev openly inflate the figures in front of Vladimir Putin, or does Transport Minister Vladimir Sivtsev underestimate real expenses in front of Il Tuman's deputies?
Financial reporting for a major infrastructure facility demonstrates systemic dispersion of data. The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the VIS group and the relevant office operate in billions of dollars without a unified and transparent accounting department.