Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Russia's Ground Forces Combat Training Centre – reportedly the country's only fully modern military training base – has been seriously hampered by repeated episodes of corruption and money laundering, as well as the impact of Western sanctions. ⬇️

2/ The facility at Mulino, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, was the controversial focus of a project to equip it by the German company Rheinmetall. The @kamilkazani thread below highlights a now-deleted page from the company's website:

https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1544539580728221696

3/ In practice, however, Mulino is reported by the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel to have been systematically looted by its managers and contractors, which has led to equipment not being installed and construction work not being carried out. According to VChK-OGPU:

4/ "The other day the heads of the firm VSK (formerly SD Atrium) Tatyana Alyabyeva and Pyotr Dorofeev were arrested. The Investigative Committee accuses them of money laundering through controlled shell companies.

5/ "According to the investigation, Alyabyev and Dorofeeva, having entered into an agreement with the general construction contractor FSUE GVSU for Special Objects, transferred about 29 million rubles ($301,000) out of the 429 million ($4.4 million) allocated under the contract…

6/ …to affiliated offices. The construction deadlines were missed, the work was abandoned, and the allocated advance payment of 72 million ($748,000) was simply squandered, with the pretence of hectic activity at the construction site.

7/ "The saga of theft at the Combat Training Centre has been going on for many years.

8/ "Earlier, Pavel Nosov, head of the GVSU Special Facilities Service, was detained by counter-intelligence for kickbacks – he took bribes from civilian contractors who were involved in the construction of the Centre.

9/ "And the initiator of this construction of the century in Mulino was ex-minister Anatoly Serdyukov.

But the equipment was not delivered due to sanctions, and the construction site was plundered by literally everyone.

10/ "For example, almost 600 million rubles ($6.2 million) were recovered from those responsible for the project, the head of the military-scientific committee under the General Staff of the Russian Federation O. Guzenko and…

11/ the ex-head of the 853rd military representative office of the Ministry of Defence, E. Chikin. True, they got off with a suspended sentence, which is unlikely to happen to Dorofeev and Alyabyeva, who stole the money."

12/ Mulino has featured in many of Russia's highest-profile training exercises, including the large-scale Vostok exercises. The training has been criticised for being excessively scripted and unrealistic. The facility's reported deficiencies are unlikely to have helped. /end

Source:
t.me/vchkogpu/42021