Karaskov Alexander Mikhailovich

Karaskov Alexander Mikhailovich

Biography

2024: Sentence - 3.5 years in a general regime colony for embezzlement of 1.8 billion rubles

On April 15, 2024, a court in Novosibirsk sentenced the former head of the E.N. Meshalkin National Medical Research Center (NMIC) Alexander Karaskov to 3.5 years in a general regime colony and sentenced him to a fine of 800 thousand rubles in the case of embezzlement of 1.8 billion rubles.

In the same case, Karaskov's wife and former deputy director of the Meshalkin National Medical Research Center Irina Boytsova received three years in a general regime colony and a fine of 500 thousand rubles. The court appointed entrepreneurs Yevgeny Pervushin and Alexander Sorokin four and a half years and four years four months in a general regime colony, respectively, as well as a fine of 1 million rubles each.

All defendants were accused in the case of misappropriation or embezzlement committed by an organized group, as well as on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Karaskova, Sorokin and Pervushin were also tried for laundering funds or other property acquired as a result of a crime (paragraph "a, b" part 4 of article 174.1).

As Kommersant writes with reference to the materials of the case, in 2015-2019. the defendants created conditions for seven controlled firms to win auctions held by the institution for the purchase of medical goods worth 7.8 billion rubles under state contracts. Of this amount, about 1.9 billion rubles were stolen by transferring to organizations for delivered goods at prices inflated during fictitious intermediary transactions.

None of the defendants pleaded guilty, all of them were taken into custody in the courtroom. During the debate, the state prosecutor asked to take into account the merits of the academician in health care. Alexander Karaskov performed more than seven thousand operations on the open heart and main vessels. Karaskov said he was not going to appeal the verdict, considering it a "senseless hassle."^[1]

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