MOSCOW, April 29 (RAPSI) – Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) established that two companies had colluded when participating in construction of medical and educational facilities tenders and could get two construction contracts amounting to 5.6 billion rubles (about $76 million), the body informs on Wednesday.

OOO Artel and OOO Yantarservisbaltik, the statement reads, won contracts for construction of a cancer center in the Kaliningrad Region and a school in the Udmurt Republic.

The watchdog insists the companies breached the federal antimonopoly law as they made an anticompetitive agreement resulting in price fixing during respective tenders.

Both construction projects were financed in the framework of the National Project on Education.

The cartel conspiracy was revealed due to cooperation of the Kaliningrad regional FAS directorate, law enforcement officers and the Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring), according to the document.