FAS uncovered a conspiracy at the grocery market

Achieve if officials cheaper goods? Reasons for the objective of growth of prices for milk, butter, buckwheat bread and cereal - no. Reserves of the state are able to cover the deficit of poor harvests caused by drought in July and August. Federal Antimonopoly Service has identified signs of bid-food market, where prices for important products significantly more expensive and caused panic among the population. As prices went up? According to the Federal State Statistics Service, with 17 to 23 August Buckwheat added to the price of 8,6% (YTD growth of 60%), wheat 2.3% and 3.3% meal (total increase of flour production for 7,5 months of the year increased 40%). Rising prices for dairy products - butter, cheese, sour cream and milk - was 1,2-1,9%. Kommersant called the rise of such "shock of crop failure" and explained this phenomenon is the monopolization of the market. Leader of price growth has been far from flour products, and buckwheat. The President of Russian Grain Union, Arkady Zlochevsky accused sellers and journalists are in short supply buckwheat. Ostensibly prices are up due to hype in the media, and speculation on this among the dealers. Russians consume annually about 700 thousand tons of buckwheat. In 2009 it was collected 566 thousand tons, and the prognosis for this is 400-450 thousand tons. Consumer boom greatly exaggerated, because the rice in our country, consume almost twice as much, but for him the queue are not aligned. As governments are struggling with the prices? Federal monopoly Service intends to take tough measures to organizations seen in the conspiracy. The violators will be fined and claims to recover damages for the budget. And provides criminal penalties - imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or disqualification. This service has already proven that fact to establish unreasonable wholesale prices of "Gurievsk Bakery. Administrative penalty for the offender could amount to almost 15% of the company's turnover. Earlier Antimonopolschiki filed cases against six bakeries in Moscow, they are suspected of colluding on prices are allocated by agreement of production by 10-20%. Prepared to bring the case on these facts and in the suburbs, and at the final stage of the investigation are located in the Kaluga, Tula, Chelyabinsk, Chuvash, Penza and the Karelian branch of the Antimonopoly Service. All of this is the result of three weeks of service. Officially, the FAS has taken all the food markets under special control of the drought, only 3 August. While the authorities almost unable to contain the rising prices of basic commodities - in the shops people continue to buy cereal and flour products.