A scandal erupted around the provision of machine tools for defense enterprises

07.03.2023       

As it became known to “”, the FSB carried out regular investigative actions at one of the leading enterprises of the general director and beneficiary of the Baltic Industrial Company (BPK) Diana Kaledina. Counterintelligence agents suspect the Sasta plant in deliveries to Roskosmos structures; Taiwanese machine tools under the guise of Russian, and of inadequate quality and at an inflated cost. Meanwhile, Business Ombudsman Boris Titov sent an appeal to the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to look into the case of Mrs. Kaledina, who has been under investigation for almost a year and a half on similar charges of fraud with machine tools. In the apparatus of Mr. Titov, they believe that "if there are grounds" the criminal prosecution of the lady should be stopped.
located in the Ryazan region, the plant of PJSC "Sasta". The visit was sanctioned by the deputy head of the department "P" in charge of industrial enterprises. Economic Security Services (SEB) of the FSB, Major General Oleg Khotyun.
Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant» (" Krasmash»).
According to preliminary information, we are talking about the supply of 42 machine tools for a total amount of almost 1.3 billion rubles. The FSB suspects that 14 of them, listed according to the Sasta production documents, were actually made in Taiwan, did not meet the technical specifications and were sold at an inflated price. In this regard, security officers from Moscow, with the support of colleagues from the FSB in the Ryazan region, visited Diana Kaledina's enterprise.
By the way, at the end of last year, all criminal cases of especially large-scale fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) against Ms. Kaledina were transferred from St. Petersburg to Moscow for objectivity — to the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was what her defenders wanted. However, after that, the employees of the "P" department again became more active. SEB FSB, who initially conducted the operational support of all these investigations. more Kommersant

At the origins of successful disbursement of funds for development machine tool industry was Viktor Semenov, who came in 2004 to the Ministry of Industry and Energy under Viktor Khristenko as head of the industrial policy department in the manufacturing industries. Then he moved to the position of deputy director of the department and in 2008 was appointed director of the department of the Ministry of Industry and Energy. After the renaming of the ministry into the Ministry of Industry and Trade, support for the machine tool industry continued. The names of the departments also changed, but support for the machine tool industry remained unchanged. At present, Viktor Semenov, to whom the machine tool industry owes a lot of support, TsNIICHERMET is in charge of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
In 2011, the subprogram "Development of domestic machine tool building in the tool industry" was launched, for which 26.4 billion rubles were allocated. At the first stage (until 2013) it was supposed to carry out research and development work (R & D) The purpose of the subprogram – by the end of 2016, to develop and prepare mass production of means for the technical re-equipment of Russian enterprises. Industrialists are delighted with the successful work of the Ministry of Industry and Trade in developing the Russian machine tool industry.

At the first stage (until 2013) it was supposed to carry out research and development work (R & D) The purpose of the subprogram – by the end of 2016, to develop and prepare mass production of means for the technical re-equipment of Russian enterprises. Industrialists are delighted with the successful work of the Ministry of Industry and Trade in the development of the Russian machine tool industry.

At the first stage (until 2013) it was supposed to carry out research and development work (R & D) The purpose of the subprogram – by the end of 2016, to develop and prepare mass production of means for the technical re-equipment of Russian enterprises. Industrialists are delighted with the successful work of the Ministry of Industry and Trade in developing the Russian machine tool industry.