Minregionrazvitiya filed in court at Alfa Bank in St. Petersburg because of the dam.

The Ministry of Regional Development has asked the court to demand that the Alfa-Bank and Corporation Transstroy pay multimillion penalty for the delays of construction of protective levees in St. Petersburg. This writes the newspaper Kommersant.
Minregionrazvitiya According to the suit, filed February 4, before the Arbitration Court of Moscow, Alfa-Bank to pay a guarantee for 19 million dollars, issued in November 2007. The guarantee was to go to the Ministry in case of non-builders Set defense of St. Petersburg from flood (GLC) of the contract.
Contractor GLC is "Inzhtransstroy", part of Transstroy "Oleg Deripaska. From "Inzhstrasstroya" Minregionrazvitiya requires 9 million dollars. The company had to complete the construction of navigation structures P-2 and a lifting bridge to the 18 March 2008, but Minregionrazvitiya believe that the contractor did not meet the deadline. In particular, as the publication, on January 22, 2009 the Employer had not been taken of work, totaling over two million dollars.
In turn, Transstroy "challenges the requirements of the Ministry and has already filed two lawsuits in the Moscow arbitration. One of them states that the employer failed to take into account the additional work carried out by "Inzhtrasstroem, as well as delayed payment of the work done. In the corporation believes that it gives the contractor the right to extend the term of the contract have a minimum of 193 days.
The project on construction of GLC, developed in 1977, once considered the oldest Russian dolgostroem. By 1995, it completed about 70 percent of the work, followed by ten years of construction had been frozen. According to dam that protects the city from flooding, should also be part of ring road that will connect the northern and southern part of St. Petersburg and the island Kotlin. It was expected that the erection of the entire range of length of 25.4 kilometers will be completed in 2011.