Samotronny apparatus

Staff of the Verkhovna Rada turn hundreds of millions of hryvnia and the remains of one of the most secretive state structures in Ukraine. Its financial reports are not published, but journalists' queries - otfutbolivayutsya. Even the most desperate Deputies recognized WA, that spoil the relations with the bureaucratic monster will get nervous.

no noticeable 16-etazhka Sribnokilskoy on the streets in Kiev was the subject of conflict, which is about to turn into a grandiose scandal. Apartments in this house built for people's deputies, and won … the staff of BP. MPs did not hide the pained outrage.

Deputy Chairman of the parliamentary committee on state building and local government, Alexander Chernomorie even appealed to the court. Two have already lost the lawsuit, but did not give up. At the last meeting of the court, on April 7, apparatchiks said Chernomorova signature under the statement of claim bogus. By the next meeting he is preparing samples of their signature, but in the meantime found out that the parliamentary clerks moved not into all of the deputies of the apartment. Several popular elect square meters is still provided, but in private. Market, despite the existence of crust льготника (ii disability groups), one of the lucky ones do not hit.

Chief of Staff to parliament tried to reassure MPs promised to distribute housing on the open competitions. However, scheduled for April 20 this year, the meeting did not take place - because of lack of quorum, a competitive commission. Deputy Sergei Sas explains the failure of the activities that the distribution of planned apartments, a warrant has already been granted … that the staff of Parliament. Moreover, some of the apartment homes have been resold to another Sribnokilskoy October-November 2008, when the square meters in these houses left on the $ 2000-2500 WA found: apartment question - one of the many fronts of the hidden war of Parliament with its own service.

Life learning

Among the most urgent issues - the openness of the parliament: its coverage of how to influence public opinion on legislative decisions and control over the activities of a single body of legislative power - announced in April. Zaychuk city of Valentine, Chief of Staff of the Verkhovna Rada, while one of his rare appearances in public. He then explained that he has in mind. - It is necessary to determine the limits of openness . This limit openness WA felt full when Zaychuk denied to journalists in an interview. At the formal request for cost estimates for the mysterious entity of Parliament WA received a written recommendation to the regulatory committee … the Verkhovna Rada.

But the deputy head of the committee - Sergei Sas - claimed WA, that the cost estimates for BP apparatus - an internal document, the content of which mere mortals access order. I myself do not fully understand why he is not subject to disclosure because it is just a small list of items of expenditure, - he wonders.

Thus, the available public information about its funding is limited to a single digit marks in the Law on gosbyuzhete for 2009 - 740 million UAH. (subject to a reserve fund). At that spent the money - a riddle, since even the annual reports of the funds already spent nowhere published. For comparison: a detailed record of the unit cost the State Duma of Russian Federation is published annually on the parliamentary website.

non-public activities of departments Valentine Zaychuk combined with impressive visibility. In autumn last year in the anti-crisis measures parliament studied the question of deprivation of apparatus XB range of concessions. In particular, it was the refusal of razvozki senior security and reducing administrative buildings of Parliament. But after several conversations Zaychuk by Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn at a parliamentary attempt to save the office ceased. Already, in approving the estimates BP revealed that the cost savings of Parliament will be achieved through … freeze construction of apartments for deputies, reducing to almost double their salaries, as well as reducing the budget for the maintenance of the assistant counselors folk elected. That is, in fact, members of parliament to save themselves, rather than the clerk Rada.

Without the device MPs powerless - argues Nebozhenko Victor, head of social services Ukrainian Barometer, which in the Administration of the then President Leonid Kuchma was responsible for cooperation with the Parliament, and thoroughly knows the backstage kitchen Rada. He noted that the legal management of the parliamentary office is the main driving force behind the legislative process and can facilitate the adoption of laws, and to block the work of BP. The fear to stay alone with corruption schemes, which are hidden in the bill, forcing members to make concessions and staff turna blind eye to his activities - argues Nebozhenko. Staff professional than the people's elected representatives, which gives him the opportunity to work for themselves, - said Boris Bespalov, a deputy of three convocations. - MPs do not pay attention to the activities of the staff in the field of economic and logistical support of Parliament. This is because the MPs live on the principle of 'live alone and let live.

Economic and logistical support of the parliament - area of responsibility of the Administration of the apparatus of the Verkhovna Rada. On its balance sheet in eight office buildings of Parliament, located in Kiev, as well as a number of recreation facilities. This year Upravdelami to learn about 80 million grn. budgetary funds. According to the WA, about 15 million grn. Of this amount allocated for the rehabilitation of the deputies and their families in the Verkhovna Rada of Crimean sanatoriums. People's choice is entitled to a free vacation in one of four sanatoriums, and members of his family shall be granted a 50% discount on my ticket. However, according to Boris Bespalov, the number of People's Deputy, to enjoy these spas in recent years, very little. Neither Dyulbere or even Oreanda no environment for leisure, to which deputies are accustomed to. Travel there is 12 thousand UAH. For 24 days, therefore, for each family member should be put on the 6 thousand UAH.

Apparently, the money is better spent on a quality vacation abroad - I am sure Mr. Bespalov. However, even with the availability of funds and the desire to relax in the spas to get MPs will not be able to stay. As the WA one of the palamentariev who asked to remain unnamed, in the past year, several of his colleagues decided to go to one of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimean sanatoria with their children. Upravdelami However, he said, assured the MPs that stays … no! If this fact occurred, it is a clear abuse of parties responsible staff of the Verkhovna Rada.

However, to our committee such complaints have been received. Most likely, this is someone's speculation, - said Valery damask, Vice Chairman of Committee on Rules, parliamentary ethics and the operation of the Verkhovna Rada. According to him, Upravdelami has the right to sell stay in the Crimean parliament Sanatoriums natural and legal persons. Means of implementation Vouchers come in spetsfond apparatus BP. But to name the amount of proceeds, and how they use damask difficult.

No less interesting situation arose with the expenditure of funds for the construction of flats for MPs and staff of the Verkhovna Rada. Officially, the last two years, none of the 140 MPs who are in need of better housing conditions, the apartment of the Verkhovna Rada had not received. Most of them live in the hotel complex Upravdelami Kiev, which cost the state budget in the amount of about 1 ths. per day per person, per year, free-approximately 365 thousand UAH. According to real estate agencies in April of this year, this amount could buy one … and even a two-bedroom apartment in the areas of Kiev.

But parliamentary officials have been slow to save public money. After all, People's Deputy endow the hotel complex, located on the balance sheet of BP apparatus, and held their numbers are unlikely to fill. Another possibility to leave the uncomfortable state rooms for the people's elected representatives are so-called parliamentary house. Their building State Building Plant Upravdelami apparatus, and he makes it quite slow. Last 17 staff apartments stroykombinata passed back in 2007, and since then the flats for the deputies are not being built. The budget-2009 on the financing is not provided. As the WA Sergei Sas, building factory has the right to sell on the open market of apartments in buildings erected by the State, if the apparatus of the Verkhovna Rada did not receive an order to them. According to him, the funds received from the sale of flats, all in the same spetsfond. About what happens to that money in the future, Sas was not able to tell.

By the way, despite the fact that this year's State stroykombinat will not build apartments for parliamentarians and the staff, his staff are paid from the budget. However, whether this means a range of Verkhovna Rada, or other state bodies, the regulatory committee of parliament do not know. We know only that there are currently major construction sites, which is Gosstroykombinat is a residential complex Brest-Litovsk in the village of Seagulls, Kyiv region, customer by the LLC ЕкоіÐ½Ð²ÐµÑÑ‚буд, as well as a dormitory for students of the Kyiv National Trade and Economic University (KNTEU ). The tender for the construction of dormitories costing 52.7 million UAH. Gosstroykombinat won at the beginning of April, beating long-time partner KNTEU - Construction and installation management (SMU) Nabilskii name. SMU representatives have already stated that the appeal against the results of the tender. But their chances of victory in conflict with the all-unit low.

cunning loopholes

Scheme development budget of the Verkhovna Rada, has a long history. A long time they were known only to a limited number of employees. When immersed in the study of all this, the hair stand on end. Indeed, human greed has no boundaries, - says Yaroslav Kendzor, deputy chairman of the committee BP on culture and spirituality. In 2000, he led the first and only in the history of the Ukrainian parliamentary commission of inquiry to verify the financial-economic and organizational apparatus of the Verkhovna Rada in 1998-2000. Then we found financial irregularities amounting to some 59 million UAH. At that time it was a tremendous amount, - remembers Kendzor. As can be seen from the report of inquiry commission, through all the schemes of the theft of budgetary resources in the office of the Verkhovna Rada is a single policy line - a person entitled to the first signatory of all financial documents, managing the affairs of the staff, delays in their posts for up to a year. This is enough, enough so that private business schemes.

In accordance with the report of inquiry commission, employees of and close to the chairman of BP Alexander Tkachenko deputies went to foreign missions, which are paid from the state budget, and the host country. Especially on this distinguished member of PSPU Alexander magician, who account for people's traveling to the Himalayas, and visited the Greek and Turkish resorts. BP Apparatus for three years exceeded the cost of entertainment expenses by more than 100 thousand grn. per year. During the investigation, and the mystery of the disappearance of permits in a Crimean sanatorium. Free vouchers not disappeared, just gone to rest instead of Deputies employees of BP. Resurfaced and the fact of the sale of BP apparatus vehicles from the parliamentary fleet at prices two to three times lower than the market, often without an expert assessment of their value.

But the biggest scandal was the transfer of leases to private companies for 49 years, a number of office buildings located in the center of Kiev, at a rate of 30-60 times lower than the market. In particular, the institute building on the street, an area of 960.1 sq. 12. m has been transferred in 1995 to rent the battery Ukrinbank … at a rate of 95 kopecks. /sqm per month.

Characteristically, the commission report has not been approved by Parliament, and therefore - none of the staff had not been punished. In turn, the General Prosecutor's Office declined to prosecute the case on the facts of abuse.

Since nine years have passed and neither the deputy did not venture to initiate a review. While certainly curious could be information about how to have spent 669 million UAH. Allocated to the activities of the Verkhovna Rada in 2007, given that in the year she worked only four months. It seems that 2007 was one of the bread for the VR apparatus. What is even lobbiruemy then-Speaker Oleksandr Moroz and upravdelami apparatus Dmitry Rudkovskim construction project parliamentary town to implement the first stage of which was allocated 100 million UAH. Planned that the town of four-five-six-deputy of houses will be built within the bounds of Kiev. In addition, in its territory must have been placed shopping center, swimming pool, playground and restaurant. However, after the departure of Rudkovskogo office chief of staff for the talk of the town of Parliament ended. And the fate of 100 million UAH. unknown to the public until now.

nonrandom scandals

Public scandals surrounding patterns of development budgets in the office of BP occur frequently, but none of them, as a rule, does not end there. The reason is obvious - the MPs remember the opacity of financial flows around the parliament only when the wish to exert political pressure on the Speaker. According to Boris Bespalov, creating a temporary commission in 2000 and the audit of the BP unit also would not have been possible if the right parliamentary majority was not interested in returning to the chair of Alexander Tkachenko Speaker. After validating the activities of the servants of the people , against Tkachenko find them compromising and thus protect themselves. In 2007, when the BYuT and NSNU taking revenge for a way out of the coalition of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Moroz, former Defense Minister Anatoly Gritsenko said that upravdelami apparatus XB Dmitry Rudkovsky involved in the illegal diversion of land belonging to the Ministry of Defense in Sevastopol, Kiev and Kharkov. Following this, a number of media, sympathetic to orange political forces, has informed that the Vehicle Upravdelami overestimated vehicles, resulting in canceled and sold tons of gasoline purchased for budgetary funds. In addition, a number of Internet publications distributed information on the patterns of sales of apartments, which are transferred to Upravdelami employees of BP, improve housing conditions. As a result of the scandal after the publication of these Rudkovsky was dismissed, also seriously hurt the image of Alexander Moroz.

At the end of April 2009, when tensions between the Party of Regions and the Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn has reached its climax, one of the leaders of regional, Alexander Efremov demanded from the Prosecutor General to draw up a business unit manager of BP Vladimir Maslakova protocol on corruption. According to Mr. Yefremov, Maslak sent aides to all members a letter with the requirement to apply for a payroll card Alfa Bank. We hung assistant deputies money in the bank Nadra . People can not get them, and we, the law requires people to go to the bank. In general, such actions are always in agreement with the regulatory committee. That had a tender, not discuss this effect on someone's decision, this is nonsense. What kind of Alfa Bank, which won the tender? know whether any of the deputies, that is a bank? - Resent at the meeting of Parliament, Alexander Efremov. Volodymyr Lytvyn said this was not the less aggressive attack: If in the future will be heard accusations about the choice of the bank, then I say, what was the pressure to break a bank.

in communicating with the deputies WA found that almost all of them perceive the close-up apparatus BP as a necessary evil. Parliamentarians are increasingly возмущаются of the structure, which is designed to ensure that they work, but to change the situation are not even trying. This means that hundreds of millions of Ukrainian hryvnia taxpayers are still spending without disclosure of any record.

Sergei Sas: Control over the domestic distribution unit BP does not apply to the authority of People's Deputies

deputy Sergei Sas - first deputy chairman of BP regulatory committee and must directly supervise the work unit BP. Но, судя по его словам, в парламенте особо никто не рвется контролировать, а тем более - обнародовать результаты деятельности аппарата.

Народные депутаты имеют возможность контролировать расходование средств аппаратом Верховной Рады?

- Комитет по вопросам регламента, депутатской этики и обеспечения деятельности Верховной Рады следит за тем, чтобы аппарат не выходил за пределы сметы ВР. Контроль над внутренним распределением средств аппаратом ВР не относится к полномочиям народных депутатов. Нардепы не входят в состав тендерных комитетов, создаваемых аппаратом ВР для выбора предприятий и организаций по обслуживанию парламента. В этой сфере аппарат ВР подконтролен ГлавКРУ и Счетной палате.

КРУ отказала ВД в предоставлении информации об итогах проверки аппарата ВР. Чем объяснить таинственность, которой окутана эта парламентская структура?

- 29 апреля 2009 года в Верховной Раде должен был проводиться семинар под эгидой британского Вестминстерского фонда поддержки демократии, в ходе которого должны были обсуждаться и эти вопросы. Но, к сожалению, мероприятие не состоялось.

Аппарат ВР как политико-правовой институт находится на стадии становления. В нем сохранилось много рудиментов советской системы. Всплывают самые разные вопросы, начиная от распределения полномочий между подразделениями аппарата, когда на отдельные из них вешается все, что только возможно, и заканчивая оптимизацией штата.

Вы считаете, что штат аппарата Верховной Рады следует сокращать?

- Надо исходить из его функций. Так, сегодня в комитете по вопросам здравоохранения работают восемь депутатов, а завтра, к примеру, их будет шестнадцать. Следовательно, для обслуживания этого комитета понадобится больше сотрудников аппарата ВР. Для этой структуры характерна текучесть кадров. Пришел человек из любого вуза, поработал два-три года, приобрел опыт, оброс связями - и после этого уходит. Зарплаты в аппарате маленькие, очередь на получение жилья большая, квартир почти никому не дают, и молодому специалисту сидеть там нет смысла. Поэтому основную часть сотрудников аппарата составляют старые кадры, воспитанные в советской системе. Много людей, вышедших на пенсию, продолжают работать по контракту. Если бы человек знал, что он, работая в аппарате в течение десяти лет, гарантированно получит квартиру, то у него была бы мотивация для работы.

Виктор Небоженко: Аппарат Верховной Рады - это украинская Аль-Каида

Руководитель всеукраинской социологической службы Украинский барометр Виктор Небоженко несколько лет проработал в Администрации президента Леонида Кучмы и непосредственно сталкивался с работой аппарата ВР. На его взгляд, реформа этой структуры сегодня необходима, но труднореализуема.

Почему чиновникам аппарата Верховной Рады на протяжении многих лет удается сохранять свое привилегированное положение?

- Председатели парламента часто меняются, а большинство сотрудников аппарата ВР работают в этой системе десятки лет. Они создали мощную юридическую защиту от любых посягательств на их льготы.

Как можно ликвидировать непрозрачные бизнес-схемы, процветающие в аппарате Верхов­Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ Рады?

- В условиях нынешней политической системы изменить ничего не удастся. Аппарат Верховной Рады тесно связан с другими органами государственной власти, в итоге возникает круговая порука. Распустят Верховную Раду,разбомбят здание, в котором она располагается, а аппарат будет прекрасно функционировать и получать положенные средства. На Западе аппарат парламента не может не сотрудничать и не взаимодействовать с журналистами, политическими и общественными организациями. Он открыт и прозрачен.

То есть сейчас аппарат представляет собой некую вещь в себе?

- Вещь в себе с собственным самоуправлением. Они (сотрудники аппарата Верховной Рады) невидимы для общества. Когда при строительстве дорог, больниц разворовываются бюджетные средства, применяется понятие нецелевое использование - и за это отправляют в тюрьму. К аппарату Верховной Рады это понятие неприменимо. Судьба средств, которые они получают, неизвестна. В аппарате Верховной Рады все используется по целевому назначению, потому что это невозможно проверить. Это - украинская Аль-Каида.

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