The head of the Biathlon Federation of the Republic of Tatarstan, Ildar Nugmanov, told that the contractor responsible for the construction of the ski and biathlon base in the village of Mirny assured that there is no was no violation in the works.
On Thursday, the head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan, Irina Nizhelskaya, announced the opening of a criminal case. According to Business Online, investigators studied some of the complex’s construction documentation and saw signs of a crime under the “Fraud on a particularly large scale” section, under which perpetrators could face up to $10. years in prison.
In July, Nugmanov told about the damage caused to the complex by heavy rains. According to the head of the federation, “there were violations of the sewage system during construction, the workers knew about it, but they did it in their own way.”
– I’m in Sochi at the competitions. I haven’t been there (to Mirny) for a month. Now I get information from the media,” Nugmanov told .
– Have you been contacted? And should they?
– Nobody contacted me. Even in these articles, my last name is not mentioned. If there are violations, there must be culprits to solve this problem. If there are perpetrators, they must be held accountable. I hope that our complex will still be finished. We need this stadium, but how much money it costs is not something we consider. This is the task of designers and specialists. We don’t have such a stadium. We from the Federation and the Russian Biathlon Union turned to the builders, but we were assured that there were no violations, all the exams were passed. This is exactly what we were assured of.
— How long have you been in contact with the general contractor?
– We corresponded, talked at meetings, where we expressed our opinion that here it is necessary like that, and here it should be done like that. We were assured that they had calculated everything, that it would be as it should be.
– A question from an amateur: whose fault is it?
“Probably the general contractor. The GISU of the Republic of Tatarstan acted as the customer for the construction.
According to the description on the website of the Ski Racing and Biathlon Federation of Tatarstan, the construction of a sports complex for training and competitions in cross-country skiing and biathlon in the village of Mirny has been underway since 2019. The facility was expected to be completed in January 2022 and will be used for the 2023 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Kazan.
Source : MatchTV
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