Chernyavsky Alexander Mikhailovich

Chernyavsky Alexander Mikhailovich

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2025: Detention on charges of taking large bribes in the supply of medical equipment

On August 27, 2025, it became known about the detention of General Director Academician E. N. Meshalkin National Medical Research Center Ministry of Health Russia Alexander Chernyavsky. Together with him, his deputy for economic and financial affairs Artem Pukhalsky was detained. The investigation suggests that both leaders were involved in a corruption scheme related to receiving bribes when concluding state contracts for the supply of medical equipment.

According to Kommersant, top managers of the center, according to preliminary information, received remuneration from representatives of commercial structures for signing contracts for the supply of expensive equipment and consumables. The investigating authorities are checking under article 290 of part 6 of the Criminal Code of Russia - taking a bribe on an especially large scale. The amount of illegal remuneration, according to the qualification of the article, exceeds ₽1 million. As part of the investigation, representatives of supplier companies were also detained. Their actions are qualified as giving a bribe on an especially large scale under article 291 of part 5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Searches were carried out on the territory of the institution, documents related to procurement in recent years were seized. According to the sources of the publication, all detainees will be taken to Moscow for investigative measures in the framework of a criminal case, which is being investigated by the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

As the newspaper RBC Novosibirsk"" writes with reference to its own source, millions were seized during the detention of the directors of the Meshalkin clinic. rubles According to the interlocutor, also among the seized is gold and a collection of expensive watches.

Representatives of the clinic on August 27, 2025 said that the institution continues to operate normally and provides medical care in all directions.

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