Khafizova Elmira

Biography

2023: Wanted list in the case of embezzlement at the Novosibirsk Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics

The defendant in the case of embezzlement at the Novosibirsk Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics named after Ya. L. Tsivyan was put on the wanted list. We are talking about the founder of the company "Business Analytics" (was engaged in the management of firms - suppliers of NIITO), writes "Kommersant" in the issue of August 10, 2023.

According to the newspaper, the case of embezzlement of budget funds during the supply of medical products for the needs of NIITO was initiated in 2017 based on the materials of the FSB. The investigation found that the purchases were made through a chain of intermediary firms affiliated with the clinic's management. This cost much more than direct supplies, the losses of NIITO for 2009-2017 amounted to over 1.3 billion rubles.

The defendant in the case of embezzlement in the Novosibirsk Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics is wanted

On this fact, a criminal case was opened under Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (embezzlement committed by an organized group, on an especially large scale), as well as a case under paragraphs "a," "b" of Part 4 of Art. 174.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (legalization of funds acquired by a group of persons as a result of their commission of a crime, using their official position, on an especially large scale). Investigators believe that the members of the group were calculated with stolen money on a loan taken for the construction of a private clinic, and also sent them to purchase equipment for its equipment.

According to an informed source of RBC, Elmira Khafizova is the sister of the wife of Sergei Poskopin, one of the main defendants in several high-profile criminal cases initiated on the fact of embezzlement at the NIITO named after Ya. L. Tsivyan. In the framework of one of these cases, the Central District Court of Novosibirsk found the ex-director of the institute Mihail Sadovyi guilty of embezzlement. As noted by the investigation, he, together with NNIITO finance consultant Sergei Poskopin, appropriated 10.7 million rubles, issuing funds as bonuses to employees. Sadovoy collaborated with the investigation, in the same year the court sentenced him to three years in prison.

Kommersant writes that Sergei Poskopin disappeared at the stage of the investigation. The court issued a sanction for his arrest in absentia, and Mr. Poskopin was put on the international wanted list.^[1]

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