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2023: Charge of supplying fake medical gowns worth 70 million rubles

In the Perm Territory, the prosecutor's office approved the indictment in a criminal case against a group of persons accused of producing and selling falsified medical devices and fraud. The press service of the supervisory authority announced this on April 10, 2023.

According to investigators, the government of the Perm Territory in 2020 allocated funds from the reserve fund in the amount of more than 360 million rubles to form a stock of medical devices.

The prosecutor's office approved the indictment in a criminal case against a group of persons accused of the production and sale of falsified medical devices and fraud

Of the total amount provided, 71 million rubles were allocated in order to purchase surgical gowns in the amount of 700 thousand pieces and sets of protective clothing in the amount of more than 57 thousand pieces.

A group of persons by prior conspiracy, within the framework of a state contract concluded with the aim of fulfilling the needs for personal protective equipment (PPE) of medical institutions of the Perm Territory, manufactured and sold falsified medical devices. As a result of these actions, the Ministry of Health of the region suffered damage in the amount of 71 million rubles.

According to the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation on April 10, 2023, the defendants were charged under paragraph "a" of part 2 of Art. 238.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (circulation of falsified, poor-quality and unregistered medicines, medical devices), part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud).

As it clarifies RBCPerm"-," we are talking about fake medical gowns and protective suits, the manufacturer of which was Kazan Zdravmedtech-Volga Region. According to the publication, the investigators found out that in fact the PPE was made Kazan by a native Uzbekistan of Utkirbek Mamazhonov, who lives in an entrepreneur. Fakes were supplied to the Perm Territory under a state contract by the Chelyabinsk LLC MedLight, the actual leader of which the investigation calls Stanislav Chalkov. Both Mamazhonov and Chalkov are accused in a criminal case. The third is another resident of Tatarstan Demokrit Manelov. Investigators call him the actual head of two intermediary companies through which they delivered - Beta LLC and MegaPolisM LLC^[1]

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