“The problem with contractors, the lowering of prices at tenders - in general this situation, as we say, got it,” TASS quotes him.
The Russian prime minister recalled that he had already instructed to strengthen the responsibility for unfair contractors.
According to him, this is not only elementary administrative responsibility, but also the introduction of a special criminal composition related to the manipulation of the results of the contests.
In January, the Blagoveshchensk City Court of the Amur Region arrested Anton Novikov, Director General of the Leo Telecom Company, which had been carrying out contract work at the Vostochny cosmodrome, for two months.
According to the investigators, from August to December 2017, Novikov deliberately seized funds in the amount of almost 26 million rubles belonging to the Center for the operation of ground-based space infrastructure facilities.