The Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia announced the violations detected during the development of the BAM and the Trans-Siberian Railway (Baikal-Amur and Trans-Siberian Railways). It has been reported DEA News.
According to the agency, the first part of the highway development project has not been completed. In addition, there are backlogs in the program for the second phase.
Representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Ekaterina Peresypkina, said that the implementation of Transsib’s Seven Days project is in danger of being disrupted. Violations he cited include delay in timing of project documentation, inadequate quality, unreasonable changes in design decisions, as well as providing false commercial proposals.
According to Peresypkina, it turned out that only in 2022 the cost was overestimated by 1 billion rubles at three project facilities, but after the intervention of the prosecutor’s office, the price was reduced.
The current program for the development of Eastern Polygon is designed until 2024. As part of the second phase of modernization, annual production and transport capacity is expected to reach 180 million tons.
In June 2022, it was reported that Gazprombank and Bamtonnelstroy-Most. suggested It took over the modernization of the Baikal-Amur Main Line (BAM) and the Trans-Siberian Railway. According to the letter written by Andrey Akimov, Chairman of the Board of the Bank and Ruslan Baysarov, Chairman of the Board of BTS-Most, to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the amount of capacity will increase to 280 million tons if the bottlenecks are rebuilt. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a turnkey model of a concession agreement concluded with the participation of a concessionaire.