Up to 17.5 years for network stealing costly medicines from state hospitals
Fifteen defendants, including medical staff and businesspeople, received prison terms in Moscow.
Moscow’s Nagatinsky court sentenced fifteen members of a criminal network stealing expensive medicines on 16 September. Kommersant describes a scheme operating for years, taking medicines from public medical institutions in several regions and reselling them. Sentences ranged from eight to seventeen years and six months.
The digital medicine-tracking system Chestny Znak helped uncover the scheme, according to the report. Convicts included medical staff and businesspeople. Bakhriddin Sayfuloev received seventeen years and six months; Kamil Guliyev fourteen years and six months, Lev Pashin sixteen years and Konstantin Trusov fifteen years and six months. A haematology centre’s damages claim was also granted.
