Pharmacy Velikiye Luki

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2022: Managers received deadlines for the assignment of 13 million rubles

At the end of December 2022, the Pskov Regional Court recognized the verdict against five employees of the Velikiye Luki state enterprise "Pharmacy" for embezzlement and embezzlement of more than 13 million rubles.

According to the press service of the regional prosecutor's office, the organized criminal group included a director, deputy director for financial and environmental affairs, chief accountant, accountant and cashier of centralized accounting. The Velikoluksky City Court agreed with these conclusions in October 2022. Then he found that for a year and a half, employees of Pharmacy systematically accrued and paid themselves illegal bonuses in the average amount of 100-200% of salary at the expense of the wage fund and net profit, which were not provided for by the collective agreement.

The Pskov Regional Court recognized the verdict against five employees of the Velikiye Luki State Enterprise "Pharmacy" for embezzlement and embezzlement of more than 13 million rubles

The convicts were sentenced using the provisions of Article 73 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in the form of conditional imprisonment for a term of 3 years to 5 years 6 months. Damage caused as a result of criminal activity in the amount of over 13.2 million rubles is subject to recovery from them in solidarity.

The convicts disagreed with the verdict. They insisted that they earned all the funds by honest work, including extracurricular and for combining professions. According to clause 6 of the Charter of the municipal enterprise "Pharmacy," the enterprise independently disposes of the profit received as a result of its activities, remaining after taxes and mandatory payments. Clause 6.3 indicates that the remaining part of the profit is used by the enterprise, including for material incentives for employees of the enterprise. During the bonus, its procedure was violated (in particular, the payments of bonuses were not agreed with the employer, that is, with the city administration), but such a violation in itself cannot be regarded as theft of funds.

But the Pskov Regional Court did not take these arguments into account. An employment contract with the director, her deputy and accountants established an additional payment when combining professions in the amount of 30%, the appellate instance said. However, in fact, they were paid extra from 70 to 310%. As a result, the verdict of the city court was left unchanged.^[1]

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