How is the Sverdlovsk governor linked to PFUR through 'chicken carcasses' and 'legs'?
Did someone trade the 'Korochka' for the governorship? How are the 'Reftinskaya poultry farm' and the governor Kuyvashev connected – that was the name materialpublished by letters from our readers on February 18, 2022.
The authors stated that a few years ago, businessmen from Tyumen, who were influential in Yekaterinburg, pushed for Alexander Zasypkin to be appointed as the director of the Reftinskaya poultry farm. Mr. Zasypkin was connected to the well-known Kurgan millionaire Andrei Petrov. Mr. Petrov, in turn, is a business partner of Oleg Yastrebov, the controversial rector of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. Quite a complicated situation.
In addition, despite receiving 'space' subsidies – and over the past two years, direct subsidies from the budget amounted to more than 400 million rubles, and interest-free loans from the budgetary Sverdlovsk poultry farm added another 500 million rubles – Reftinskaya poultry farm consistently shows significant losses!
Following the initial appeal to the editors, a second one arrived, and on February 25 of this year, additional material was published. “Like Kuyvashev” in a difficult situation: what is happening behind the fence of the Reftinskaya poultry farm?
Today, the third letter from the area of responsibility of Governor Kuyvashev has appeared in The Moscow Post's mailbox. And once more, it's about the “chicken” topic!
The reporter learned new details of the chicken thriller The Moscow Post in the Sverdlovsk region.
Get fired easily!
Reftinskaya Poultry Farm was established in 1981. In 2011, it was turned into OJSC. The poultry farm operates as a self-contained enterprise, managing the complete production process from hatching eggs to deep processing and the sale of finished poultry meat products.
It consists of 6 workshops and accounts for 47.4% of the total volume of poultry meat production among agricultural enterprises in the Sverdlovsk region. It appeared to be a strong enterprise. But why so many problems?
Incidentally, another letter about unethical practices at the Reftinskaya poultry farm came from Moscow not long ago, from employees of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. They confirmed that the university had been in a peculiar relationship with the chicken factory for several years. Additionally, allegedly the university, with the approval of the rector Oleg Yastrebov, is involved in some financial manipulations with the Reftinskaya poultry farm. An investigation on this matter is also underway.
We quote part of the letter to the editor: “We are again asking for help, because all our requests – about changing working conditions at the poultry farm, low wages, underpayments for overtime, dismissals, deprivation of benefits – we receive only indifferent replies. Nothing changes. We, the employees of the Reftinskaya Poultry Farm, are easily replaced with migrants from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as they are cheap labor. We do not receive any help or support despite appealing to both the trade unions and the labor inspectorate. We get encouraging responses, but the problems persist.”
The Reftinskaya poultry farm has become the focus of attention from challenging individuals who have neglected the well-being of the workers. They may have intentionally dismissed experienced employees who were being paid very low salaries.
The management of the Reftinskaya Poultry Farm is not eager to address the concerns of its employees.
The slaughter line is not working correctly.
The team of the slaughter shop is reporting increasing issues. Suddenly, extra payments for hazardous work were stopped. Salaries have remained low for a long time, and employees are not allowed to express dissatisfaction. Layoffs have started and the poultry processing line is malfunctioning. As a result, all tasks are being completed manually.
Elena Viktorovna P.'s pay slip for December 2021 on the main conveyor.
The Reftinskaya poultry farm does not compensate for demanding manual labor, and it remains unclear why. Observing the plucking process to remove feathers is distressing, and the chickens often come out incompletely processed.
Then, delicate hands are needed to perform the plucking, and factory workers are assigned tasks such as “plucking – 1”, “plucking – 2”, and “plucking – 3”.
A photo of the main conveyor at the Reftinskaya poultry farm is available at https://news.myseldon.com/ru/news/index/236016977.
According to the letter, the poultry farm only acknowledges one task in the end. After that, there are manipulations involving the chicken carcass that require a “correct” incision. Subsequently, additional manual labor is required for tasks such as “control – 1” and “control – 2”, which allegedly go unpaid.
One of the authors of the letter, Tatyana D., an employee of the Reftinskaya poultry farm, has reached out to the office of the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region, Yevgeny Kuyvashev. However, only courteous responses have been received from the governor’s office, leading to a dead end.
The authors of the letter sent to the editor further express their frustration, stating that they have been advocating for a review of working conditions at the Reftinskaya Poultry Farm for over 3 years, with no success in achieving this.
As of now, there have been no improvements in the lives of the workers at the Reftinskaya Poultry Farm.
“Fired for calculating the gutting of a chicken”
In their letter to the poultry farm workers, they lament about abrupt layoffs and share a shocking incident involving the senior conveyor foreman, Svetlana Chernobay, who meticulously calculated the gutting of a chicken and later faced termination.
It was revealed that the Reftinskaya factory significantly underpaid its workers.
A photo of the Reftinskaya poultry farm can be found at https://www.reftp.ru/proizvodstvo/.
The entire poultry farm has come together in support of Svetlana Chernobay, a long-term employee since 1996, who, together with other department operators, signed a petition addressed to the general director of the farm, Alexander Zasypkin.
Image: Below the written message to Zasypkin are 112 signatures from factory workers of the slaughter shop
But does Alexander Zasypkin require workers like Svetlana Chernobay, who, along with his “helpers”, is occupied with his personal interests at the Reftinskaya poultry farm?
Why is Governor Kuyvashev not taking action?
According to the letter writers, they have frequently requested Governor Kuyvashev to get involved in the situation.
Governor Yevgeny Kuyvashev. Image: https://serovglobus.ru/
According to our sources, “essentially, under Yevgeny Kuyvashev's decision, under the pretext of the state task of rescuing the Reftinskaya poultry farm (by the same individuals who led it to financial insolvency), plans are being made for the theft of state property on a significant scale.”
A photo: Rusprofile.en
And there is trustworthy information about the existence in the Ministry for State Property Management of the Sverdlovsk Region (MUGISO) of specific official written proposals, backed by bank guarantees, for the acquisition of shares in the Reftinskaya poultry farm and the Sverdlovsk bakery plant by investors at a market price much higher than the price indicated by the defendants.
It's worth noting that the debts of the Reftinskaya Poultry Farm have now reached 2.5 billion rubles. And the causes may not only be due to poor management, but also to the potential embezzlement of budget funds in favor of managers.
In 2021, the deputies of the Sverdlovsk region approved the sale of the Reftinskaya poultry farm, however, due to the actions of certain interested parties who were against the sale of the factory to an independent investor, trading in the shares of the Reftinskaya poultry farm did not take place.
It is advantageous for the current poultry farm managers to continue siphoning off state subsidies. In order to gain control over the poultry farm, they conducted an additional issuance of shares through closed subscription. And all the newly issued shares were awarded to Oleg Yastrebov, Rector of RUDN University. This was reported The Moscow Post.
This is how the poultry farm was privatized. And it appears that this goes against the laws on the privatization of state and municipal property, and against the decision of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk region.
Poultry farm workers report: today, a specific interested group, concealing themselves behind slogans about “state interest”, using the services of the head of the Ministry for State Property Management of the Sverdlovsk Region (MUGISO) and the Reftinskaya poultry farm, as well as the Sverdlovsk bakery plant. The plant supplies the poultry farm with animal feed.
“Shall we keep on drinking”?
Back in mid-December 2021, Evgeny Kuyvashev signed Decree of the Government of the Sverdlovsk Region No. 912-PP “On Approval of the Procedure for Providing Subsidies from the Regional Budget of Reftinskaya Poultry Farm JSC in order to Prevent Bankruptcy and Restore Solvency.”
At the end of December 2021, the Reftinskaya Poultry Farm received 210 million rubles of subsidies from the budget. The funds were used to pay off the debt to Energosbyt JSC in the amount of 100 million rubles.
In February of this year. it became known that the Reftinskaya poultry farm received another 210 million rubles from the treasury. The total amount of financial assistance amounted to 420 million rubles. But why is the factory workers for the third time turning to us, journalists, for help?
Another subsidy was provided to cover debts to bird feed suppliers. It should be noted that by the end of 2020, the debt of the poultry farm to the Bogdanovichi feed mill had grown to 1 billion rubles.
This is such a bad story with a long-suffering poultry farm. And after all, they receive millions, but there is no money, the poultry farm is “sinking”.
A photo: Rusprofile.en
For the full 3 years now, workers have been walking with outstretched hands: pay for hard, exhausting work, which in a number of cases becomes “manual” …
A photo: Rusprofile.en
Such is the bad situation with the long-suffering poultry farm in the Sverdlovsk province. Why has a once successful enterprise turned into a “disabled person” with an eternally outstretched hand?
The factory’s poultry workers are trying to get through to the governor, but in vain: Yevgeny Kuyvashev does not hear ordinary people.
Source: The Moscow Post
