Ministry of Health of the Altai Republic

History

2024: Appointment of Dmitry Khubezov as Minister

In October 2024, Dmitry Khubezov was appointed Minister of Health of the Altai Republic. This was announced by the head of the region Andrei Turchak. Read more here

2023

Entrepreneurs who paid bribes to officials of the Altai Ministry of Health were replaced with a suspended sentence

Entrepreneurs Galina Drobysheva and Mikhail Alekseev, who paid bribes to officials of the Altai Ministry of Health, the suspended sentence was replaced with a real one. The corresponding decision at the end of November 2023 was made by the collegium of the Supreme Court of the Altai Republic. Read more here.

Pavel Reshetov's departure to the colony for taking a bribe

On March 14, 2023, the Office of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Altai Republic announced that the court found the former head of the Ministry of Health Pavel Reshetov guilty of taking a bribe on a large scale. He was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison. Read more here.

2022

The court sentenced the ex-Minister of Health of the Altai Republic to 10 years of strict regime

On November 2, 2022, a court in Gorno-Altaysk sentenced ex-Minister of Health of the Altai Republic Sergei Kovalenko to 10 years of strict regime in a bribery case (Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). A similar verdict was passed to Kovalenko's assistant Rustam Tuyunchekov. Read more here.

Entrepreneurs from Novosibirsk received sentences for bribes to the ex-head of the Altai Ministry of Health

At the end of August 2022, a court in Gorno-Altaysk (Altai Republic) sentenced entrepreneurs from Novosibirsk Galina Drobysheva and Mikhail Alekseev, who were accused of bribing officials of the Altai Republic Ministry of Health. Both were given a suspended sentence: a man - 4 years and 6 months, a woman - 4 years. They will also pay a fine totaling 22 million rubles, the press service of the Investigative Committee for the Altai Republic reported. Read more here.

Arrest of Pavel Reshetov in the case of bribes

The Gorno-Altai City Court arrested the former regional head of the Ministry of Health and the chief physician of the Kosh-Agach district hospital Pavel Reshetov, who is accused of taking bribes on an especially large scale (paragraph "c" of part 5 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). This was reported on August 7, 2022 by the press service of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Altai Republic. Read more here.

2021

Valery Elykomov - the new Minister of Health of the Altai Republic

On October 18, 2021, it was announced the appointment of Valery Elykomov as Minister of Health of the Altai Republic. Lyudmila Grigoricheva, who previously temporarily acted as minister, remained to work in the department in the position of First Deputy Minister of Health. Read more here.

The head of the Altai Ministry of Health was detained on charges of taking a bribe

On March 10, 2021, law enforcement officers detained the Minister of Health of the Altai Republic, Sergei Kovalenko, on suspicion of corruption. Read more here.