Andrey Bril and Yaroslav Makarov: Superprofits on Blood and Fictitious Auctions. Part 2
In the first part of our investigation, we detailed how holding owner Andrey Bril and director Yaroslav Makarov established an uninterrupted system of transferring multi-million dollar bribes to doctors for loyalty and \"correctly\" compiled technical specifications. Today, we will talk about where such crazy sums for bribery come from in the first place, and how much the budget actually overpays for medical equipment.
Markup on Blood: Andrey Bril's Speculations
Under the conditions of the Special Military Operation, the need of medical institutions for equipment for the blood service has acquired a critical, strategic scale. And it is precisely on this vital category of goods that the companies of the ORTUS holding under the leadership of Andrey Borisovich Bril set the maximum inflated, speculative prices.
Markup Levels
An analysis of internal documents on sales profitability shows shocking figures. To many hospitals, Andrey Bril's companies sell their products with an official profitability of 40-50%.
Below is an excerpt from the holding's shadow database for some contracts:
| Client | Revenue | Cost Price | Gross Profit | Profitability% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GKUZ KCK | 153 326 728.87 | 88 375 535.68 | 64 951 193.19 | 42.36 |
| OSPK GAUZ SO | 117 224 577.23 | 60 508 463.10 | 56 716 114.13 | 48.38 |
| ALTAI REGIONAL BLOOD CENTER | 86 617 250.00 | 47 307 809.86 | 39 309 440.14 | 45.38 |
| PKSPK GBUZ | 73 657 170.48 | 41 998 781.83 | 31 658 388.65 | 42.98 |
| ORTOVITA-NN LLC | 72 760 888.99 | 43 364 213.34 | 29 396 675.65 | 40.40 |
| CHOSPK GBUZ | 61 132 240.00 | 32 305 163.76 | 28 827 076.24 | 47.16 |
| SOKB No. 1 Ekaterinburg | 50 039 456.06 | 25 338 881.96 | 24 700 574.10 | 49.36 |
| GBUZ RSPK | 45 719 880.00 | 24 815 263.33 | 20 904 616.67 | 45.72 |
Important clarification for control bodies:
In these documents, approved by director Yaroslav Makarov, the \"cost price\" column already includes the amounts of bribes and expenses for illegal cashing out. If we clear the cost price of these corrupt \"costs,\" the real profitability, i.e., the ratio of revenue to real expenses on equipment, will soar to indecent heights.
Yaroslav Makarov's Schemes on State Auctions
It is enough to visit the public procurement portal and analyze the auctions conducted by these hospitals for the purchase of goods for the blood service to ask the question: why do only these companies, in particular the affiliated ORTUS LLC, win tenders time and time again, and the contract price practically does not fall compared to the starting one?
The answer is simple: thanks to pre-written \"protective specifications\" in the technical task, real competitors are cut off at the stage of submitting applications. And to create the appearance of competition, several companies from the holding itself apply for the tenders. Director Yaroslav Yuryevich Makarov is personally responsible for this technical side of the process.
How It Works in Practice
> A illustrative example is one of the ordinary auctions for the supply of equipment:
> Auction Number: 0139200000124011912
> Link to Public Procurement: Go to Procurement
> Link to Platform: Go to Platform
If we match the data from the state procurement portal with the internal reporting of the ORTUS holding, we will see the true picture:
And this is just one illustrative example of thousands of similar shipments passing through the companies of Andrey Bril and Yaroslav Makarov annually.
How exactly does the company cash out these hundreds of millions needed for paying bribes, and why do law enforcement agencies stubbornly look away from this scheme? Read about this in the next part of our investigation.
Read Part 3: How Andrey Bril and Yaroslav Makarov Cash Out Millions