A businessman who built the "Putin highway" has been detained in Kazan on suspicion of fraud.
How to сообщают local Telegram channels, Airat Minullin was detained yesterday and spent the night in a temporary detention facility.
For the past 15 years, his company, VolgaDorStroy, has been ranked among the kings of state procurement, winning government contracts totaling 37,5 billion rubles. Among other projects, it built a section of the M-12 toll highway, which is intended to connect Moscow с TyumenPutin stated that this is “one of the most important projects of our time” and personally opened finished plots. And in February of last year even rode driving a KamAZ on the M-12 section, which is located in the area Kazan.
At the same time, Minullin's company began a series of troubles: it ended last year with a loss of 3,6 billion rubles, and this spring, workers started complaining Massive wage arrears were reported. Contractors working on the "Putin Highway" for VolgaDorStroy also reported delayed payments.
Over the course of several months, Minullin faced dozens of debt collection lawsuits and demands to declare his company bankrupt. By summer, the businessman's total debt had exceeded four billion rubles. Meanwhile, the debtor's list of assets turned very small: non-residential premises, two plots of land, four tractors and a motor ship.
Construction of the M-12 began back in 2022 and was plagued by a series of scandals. Putin was initially promised completion by 2024, but the deadline was later pushed back to 2025.
Media Reported, that the bulk of the money for this project, amounting to 500 billion rubles, was received by Putin's friends - Gennady Timchenko и Arkady Rotenberg. Moreover, it wasn’t only workers from Tatarstan who complained about delayed wages: strikes arranged builders of sections in Bashkortostan, Perm Krai, Nizhny Novgorod и Sverdlovsk region.
At the moment, the M-12 highway has only been completed up to YekaterinburgSegment up to Tyumen They plan to open it in 2027. They want to extend the highway further Vladivostok.
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