“We lived right in the courthouse” – Kommersant Kazan

As Kommersant-Kazan has learned, former bailiff from Cheboksary Pavel Ivanov is trying to get 1.6 million rubles from the Federal Bailiff Service. additional payments for a four-month business trip to the Donetsk People’s Republic. The bulk of the demands consist of increased daily allowances, which management denied him. He filed a lawsuit against the department. According to him, there are 10 other people like him in Chuvashia alone who withdrew their claims due to the threat of dismissal. He himself was forced to leave service due to litigation.

Former junior bailiff of the Cheboksary district bailiff office of the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) for Chuvashia, internal service sergeant 31-year-old Pavel Ivanov from Cheboksary intends to recover 1.6 million rubles from the FSSP. for a 122-day business trip to the DPR from October 2022 to February 2023. He filed a lawsuit against the department in the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow demanding compensation of 997,960 rubles. daily allowance, additional payment for overtime of 409,317 rubles, interest for delayed payment of wages in the amount of 99,409 rubles, and 100 thousand rubles. – as compensation for moral damage (a copy of the statement of claim is at the disposal of Kommersant-Kazan). The hearing of the claim is scheduled for April 10.

According to him, by order of the State Medical University of the Federal Bailiff Service of Russia dated October 26, 2022, Pavel Ivanov was sent on a business trip to the Donetsk People’s Republic – to the Starobeshevo District Court (the city of Starobeshevo, southeast of the DPR).

He was given an AKS-74u service weapon and appointed shift leader. “We were on duty for days, earned gratitude from the acting chairman of the Starobeshevsky District Court of the Donetsk People’s Republic M.G. Palkina, received a Certificate of Honor from the Director of the Bailiff Service – Chief Bailiff of the Russian Federation, Colonel General of the Internal Service D.V. Aristov. “For performing particularly important and special tasks on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic,” Pavel Ivanov noted in his statement of claim.

He told Kommersant-Kazan that according to the management’s order, the facility had to be guarded around the clock, seven days a week.

“The security was carried out in platoons of three. We lived right in the courthouse. Two stood at the post while one rested for four hours. Then replacement. And so all four months without days off,” shared Pavel Ivanov. “We ate there. We cooked ourselves, during the day we ran to the store for groceries; we had a gas stove with a spray can. They ate, slept, and worked around the clock with a machine gun in their hands. Constant visits to buildings in the area, complete immersion,” added Sergeant Ivanov.

How wrote “Kommersant-Kazan”, in the Starobeshevsky district on November 19, five missiles from the HIMARS launcher fired at a local club. As a result, actress Polina Menshikh died. A school, a store and other nearby buildings were also damaged by the impact.

He served in the Starobeshevsky District Court until the end of his business trip. On February 26, he and 10 other colleagues from the Chuvash Republic were taken to Rostov-on-Don, and from there everyone went home on their own. Returning to his homeland, Pavel Ivanov learned that for each day of his business trip he and his colleagues were to receive a daily allowance in the amount of 8,480 rubles. – according to the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1915 “On certain issues related to business trips on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Lugansk People’s Republic, Zaporozhye region and Kherson region.”

Sergeant Ivanov stated that he did not even know about the required payments, he was only assigned a salary of 160 thousand rubles. per month.

“It became offensive. There were 11 of us. We bought tickets to Rostov-on-Don ourselves, with our own money. True, they were later returned. But for the ticket at the end of the business trip – from Rostov to Cheboksary – they did not compensate. We bought a bulletproof vest with our own money, which cost 30 thousand rubles, essential goods… The management didn’t provide us with anything at all. And then we find out that we are entitled to a daily allowance of 8 thousand,” said Pavel Ivanov.

He and his colleagues turned to the leadership of the Cheboksary regional branch of the Federal Bailiff Service for Chuvashia.

“They started demanding from the management to accrue additional money, the amount is not small. But we were told that we should resolve issues with the GMU (Main Interdepartmental Directorate of the FSSP of the Russian Federation – Kommersant-Kazan),” said the sergeant. “Some, including me, filed a lawsuit against the State Medical University, and the management began to put pressure on us. They said: either withdraw your claims or quit. In the end they took everything, but I left it. And he quit,” added Pavel Ivanov.

Mr. Ivanov’s lawyer, Alexey Kazanov, believes that in addition to non-payment of daily allowance, Pavel Ivanov’s employer violated the Labor Code of the Russian Federation: the time sheet for 122 days of business trip indicated an eight-hour working day with two days off, although the work was carried out around the clock with breaks of four hours. “Thus, the FSSP of Russia should compensate my client for overtime,” Mr. Kazanov told Kommersant-Kazan.

As Kommersant-Kazan found out, at least 61 employees of the FSSP of Russia from different cities (Moscow, Samara, Kostroma, Cheboksary, Novosibirsk, Tyumen, Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo, etc.) filed similar claims with the courts, demanding compensation in the amount about 25 million rubles.

Kommersant-Kazan turned to the Federal Bailiff Service of Russia for comment. To date it has not been received.

Stepan Beloenko