YABLOKO Anti-Corruption Centre caught Samara authorities in a “golden” car washing services order for municipal cars
Press Release, 19.06.2014
The Administration of Samara canceled a very expensive contract for car washing after an appeal of YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin to the Ministry of Social, Demographical and Family Policies of the Samara region and to head of the Ministry Marina Antimonova. YABLOKO received the official notification today.
YABLOKO Anti-Corruption Centre discovered that municipal enterprise Centre for Provision of Social Support for Population placed at the website for state procurement contracts an order for car washing services totaling RUR 180,000 (approx. Euro 3,826) for 2014. However, the enterprise has only 22 cars. This means that every car should be washed 596 times in year, i.e. 1.65 times a day.
Sergei Mitrokhin indicated in his appeal that his contradicted to the principles of the budget law and led to wastes of the municipal budget.
Posted: June 19th, 2014 under YABLOKO against Corruption.