Officials of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation caused damage to the state for 20 million rubles.

The General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation (apparently following a complaint by the losing party), checked the legality of government contracts placed by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

The investigation found that the ministry officials had delegated the authority to hold a tender for the placement of a state contract to a private company. On February 9 last year, this company announced on its website a tender for the right to conclude a state contract for the provision of various services, with a starting price of 51.3 million rubles.

Along with others, an enterprise subordinate to the ministry (which offered 37 million rubles for the contract) and a certain commercial organization, which could perform the same amount of services for 16.3 million rubles, took part in the tender. How the officials of the "Unified Commission for the placement of bids for the supply of goods and services" could have made a mistake remains a mystery, but as a result, the ministry enterprise won the tender. The contract was concluded with this enterprise, despite the twofold excess of the contract value.

The Prosecutor General's Office saw in this case "negligence of the ministry's officials with damage amounting to over 20 million rubles". The materials of the audit were sent to Bastrykin's department in order to open a criminal case.