IES Multiutilities loses 100 million RUR a year due to unauthorized network use

IES Multiutilities reports it had 618.21 million RUR worth of unpaid electricity bills, 422.414 million RUR worth of unpaid heating bills, and 52.683 million RUR worth of unpaid water supply bills on September 1, 2007. Overall, various companies came to owe IES Multiutilities 1,093,306,000 RUR altogether. The company is still using complaints and claim-laying practices as the major tool of debt recovery; in August 2007, 599 cases ended up in the court, with 556 out of 599 claims laid against private individuals. Kamensk Communal Company, with its 75,209,020,000 RUR worth of debts (as of

The communal housing and services companies of Kamensk-Uralsk (Sinara Group) owes IES Multiutilities 84 million RUR (as of December 1, 2007), which is 6 million more than in November 2007. The debt is, in fact, an unpaid hot water and electricity bill. Sinara was supposed to have paid the supplier 38 million RUR in November 2007, yet the debtor announced at the beginning of the month that they were only able to pay 34 million RUR. By the end of the month, however, they said they could only pay 25 million RUR, and ended up paying 14 million RUR, the spokesperson for IES Multiutilities said to

IES Multiutilities Ltd. and Sverdlovsk Communal Networks informed the council of Krasnoturinsk that they were not going to sign the agreement allowing them to rent the local engineering structures or public water and heat supply systems, reports the spokesperson for IES Multiutilities. IES Multiutilities Ltd. applied for the tenant right concerning the electricity networks, the engineering structures, and public water and heat supply systems; the town council, however, decided to give this right to another company. IES Multiutilities Ltd., in its turn, tries to stick to multi-faceted and

Consumers owe more than 249.12 million RUR to IES Multiutilities; the enterprise has failed to collect the debts out of court, so the local courts are processing about 2,264 claims laid by the company against its debtors at the moment. All in all, there were 3,234 claims against the company’s clients worth 246,975,000 RUR altogether in the first quarter of 2007; the claims largely had to do with unpaid housing bills.

‘Kamensk Communal Company still has not started paying its multi-million-ruble heating bill,’ IES Multiutilities’ PR Director Elena Ilyina said to UrBC. ‘These circumstances notwithstanding, the heating season did start in the town of Kamensk Uralskiy last Friday. Some districts haven’t got the heating yet, though; these are the old town and Leninskiy district. Kamensk Communal Company still has not produced any documents that could prove that the heating facilities used in these parts of the town are actually ready to be used,’ Ms Ilyina added. Overall, IES Multiutilities’ debtors owe the