Annual report of the head of the accounts chamber (SP) Alexei Kudrin in the state Duma was within 10 minutes. He was both concise and quite informative. Kudrin announced a few important numbers, saying, for example, that in the past year, the office revealed violations in use of budget funds for 884,6 billion. But the debate on the report produced a strange impression. Some MPs, appealing to the President of the chamber, seemed to forget that Kudrin runs only on financial controls, not corruption structure with unlimited powers.
After 2019 319 of the control and expert-analytical activities, the joint venture has identified 4443 violation, Kudrin said. In monetary terms (884,6 billion) exceeded the sum of the indicator 2018 14.5%. The majority of cases due to incorrect accounting and incorrect preparation of different financial statements, 27% of violations in public procurement and procurement by legal entities, around 25% of violations in the formation and execution of the budget. To disciplinary action last year attracted 436 officers (23 of whom are fired), in 2018 — 492. Recently the control office, according to Kudrin, focused on the identification of systemic issues in the public sector. That is, SP is already trying not to “cling” for every 100 thousand rubles, incorrectly recorded in buhotchetnosti.
Direct criticism of the audit chamber and personally Kudrin was little. In General, the debate on the report wore a calm nature. The keynote series of presentations was unoriginal thought: “officials freely spend money.” But a couple of times parliamentarians blew up the situation. So, a member of the Duma faction of the Communist Nikolai Kolomeitsev rebuked SP in insufficient attention to the work of the corporations. According to him, “the Deputy has no right to make a request for the state corporations, the chamber hesitates”. As a result, the dividends, salaries, profits of state-owned corporations are growing, and growth is not affected. “Someone getting a free budgetary loans semiobovate, and the state suffer,” — said the Deputy.
As always, lit by the full LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky. On the one hand, he paid tribute to the SP, on the other — hit the system earmarked development funds established in the regions: “think Good, but can not block the channels of theft.” Recalling the Brezhnev era and the all-powerful nomenklatura, Zhirinovsky said today are exactly the same bow, which the chamber does not break: “Relatives again everywhere in key positions, all on the pull”. Here, clearly, we need tough steps in the spirit of the policy of Ivan the terrible, Peter the great and Stalin. His speech Vladimir Zhirinovsky made a rhetorical question: “Why do we have all over the country doing repairs buildingrather than build a new one? It’s easier to tear down the wreck, a hundred years.”
had the impression that the chamber — was the main fighter against theft. But her task is to identify violations of the budget and to make representation to the Prosecutor’s office, the interior Ministry, to the government. Therefore, Zhirinovsky is not right here, says the Director of the Institute of strategic analysis FBK Igor Nikolaev. According to the interlocutor of “MK”, the question should address rather to law enforcement agencies that receive SP relevant information. If you consider the whole situation with misuse of budget funds in Russia, it is gradually improving. Realizing that the regulatory authorities are on the alert, officials are more accurate from the point of view of financial discipline. But in terms of performance auditing (“money”) of the same the chamber is still much to do. This audit is a far more complicated task that requires some skill of the performers.
— it Seems that the MPs themselves don’t quite know what I want: or more to identify violations, or more to prevent them, — said the Deputy head of IAC “Alpari” Natalia Milchakova. In its opinion, Kudrin is acting properly, within their powers and competencies. It is important that the chamber is not doing the “little stuff” like checking the correctness of accounting in each Department. SP needs to focus on preventing violations in the sphere of public procurement. Milchakova reminds that Kudrin was a Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, he actively promoted the idea of translation accounting of all Russian legal entities to international financial reporting standards (IFRS). If the government today returned to this idea, it would free SP from features redundant small administration.
