The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has detected a conspiracy in…

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has detected a conspiracy in the construction of waste dumps worth nearly 15 billion rubles.

Consensus

FAS identified a violation of antimonopoly legislation involving construction projects for waste management facilities.
The total value of the affected contracts and agreements is 14.9 billion rubles.
The cartel involved companies 'Gidrokor' and 'Respublikansky ekologichesky operator', as well as other economic entities and government bodies.
The agreement operated between 2021 and 2026.
The scheme restricted competition and created conditions for inefficient use of budget funds on infrastructure projects.
Participants in the cartel may face administrative liability under the Russian Code of Administrative Offenses (KоАП РФ).
The collusion included coordination during procurement competitions and the use of concession agreements to bypass legal requirements.

The 'Respublikansky ekologicheskiy operator' signed a concession agreement with the government of Dagestan in September 2022 for building three waste processing complexes in Makhachkala, Derbent, and Khasavyurt, with total investments of 12.8 billion rubles; project deadlines were shifted to 2026. — tg_govorit_nemoskva
The 'Gidrokor' company is active in construction across Russia, including in Smolensk Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai, and Karelia; it was previously criticized for a project to remediate an old landfill in St. Petersburg's Yablonsky Garden, which cost nearly 2 billion rubles. — tg_govorit_nemoskva
On July 20, FAS concluded its monitoring of small and medium business procurement in 2025, identifying 12,743 contractors who failed to meet the 25% quota; this is a 36.2% decrease compared to 2023. — vedomosti
There were 3,091 violations of reporting deadlines in the Unified Information System (EIS), nearly half the number from two years prior. — vedomosti
The cartel scheme included using concession models to circumvent legal requirements, financing through budget funds without involving non-budget sources, and creating unjustified barriers for other market participants by allocating subcontracting obligations. — kommersant