2024-01-20 10:30:00
In former times, the constant headache of almost every enterprise of the socialist, people’s, one might say, economy was nonsense. This was the name given to the factory workers who excitedly tried to steal from the factory at least something needed in the household. They were caught, but with varying degrees of success, and they even came up with a motto for themselves, in verse:
Bring every nail from the factory –
You are the host here, not the guest!
It is unlikely that this relic of the past has completely disappeared, but now production managers face more pressing problems. Among them, the worst outcome of production activity is economic insolvency, or bankruptcy. So to speak, the flip side of a market economy.
A difficult economic situation has developed at several enterprises in the Slonim district, in the Grodno region. The local government, through the economic court, appointed an insolvency administrator for them. It’s a standard procedure, and it would seem that we don’t care about our neighbors’ problems. But the trick is that this manager was a resident of Brest, who specialized in crisis management and was quite well known in certain circles. Let’s call him Andron. Undoubtedly, he had experience, and varied.
Andron arrived in a neighboring region on a long business trip. To begin with, he was entrusted with the anti-crisis management of the construction company SU-187. The new manager had to sell off the remaining property of the construction department, resolve issues with creditors in accordance with the order of payments, put the files in the archives and ultimately liquidate the enterprise. Having assessed the scale of the enterprise, Andron first proceeded as follows. For work, he used a personal Nissan car. In agreement with the economic court and creditors of the SU-187, he refueled the car at the expense of the remaining property of the construction organization, and at the same time carried out a complete repair of the Nissan. In the same way, he repaired another car, previously owned by the construction department, and sold it at auction to a “third party.” And in the end, the “car” was used by the anti-crisis manager himself. And in the same way, at the expense of the construction company, the trailer-dacha that Andron purchased for himself was repaired.
All this, naturally, required money. Andron acted in two ways: either he paid with his own money, then presenting these expenses for reimbursement to the bankrupt company, or he made payments directly from the company’s current account.
In his free time from management, Andron looked into local stores. I looked at some things and, using funds from a bankrupt enterprise, bought a chainsaw, a room thermostat and pumps. A few days later I wrote them off the SU balance sheet and took them home. There, these useful things were subsequently discovered by law enforcement officers. Among other property, the dying enterprise had accumulated a lot of scrap metal and various papers that had lost their value. The manager handed over all this to procurement organizations. And what? That’s right: he took the money for himself. With the same result, I sold the machines that were on the balance sheet of the construction department and the engine from a ZIL car for my own pocket.
With the transfer of new insolvent enterprises to management, Andron, under a contract agreement, appointed himself an accountant as an assistant. But with one condition: he will receive only half of the salary due for his position. The second half goes to the anti-crisis manager.
However, no matter how much the rope twists… The hour of reckoning has come. A criminal case was opened against the anti-crisis manager. The total amount of embezzled property and money amounted to more than twenty thousand rubles.
Ivan ORLOV
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