Golenetskaya Elena Sergeyevna

Golenetskaya Elena Sergeyevna

Biography

2024: Detention in the case of the purchase of unnecessary drugs

In March 2024, the former Deputy Minister of Health of the region Elena Golenetskaya was detained. She is accused of committing crimes under paragraph "c" of Part 3 of Art. 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of office with causing grave consequences) and part 1.1 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (negligence).

According to the press service of the Investigative Committee for the Irkutsk Region, in October 2019, employees of the regional Ministry of Health purchased more than 450 thousand packages of the drug on the basis of state contracts worth more than 35 million rubles. The volume of the batch turned out to be almost three times higher than the demand established for the Irkutsk region. Some of the unused drugs were destroyed because they had expired. Thus, the actions caused damage to the regional budget in the amount of more than 25 million rubles.

As the Telegram channel Barb Mash clarifies, Elena Golenetskaya ordered without the need to purchase batches of the painkiller Tramadol.

According to Kommersant, citing a source close to the Ministry of Health of the Irkutsk Region, by the end of March 2024, Elena Golenetskaya has been retired since December 2020. In the ministry, she worked for 20 years in various positions, including as deputy minister. In the last two months before she retired, she was acting minister.^[1]

2025: Sentence - 2 years in prison for the purchase of unnecessary drugs for ₽25 million

Former Deputy Minister of Health of the Irkutsk Region Elena Golenetskaya received two years in prison in a penal colony for abuse of office in the purchase of medicines. The Kirovsky District Court of the city of Irkutsk found the ex-official guilty of misuse of budget funds, which led to damage to the regional treasury in the amount of over ₽25 million. The verdict was passed on September 2, 2025.

According to the prosecutor's office of the Irkutsk region, the court established the fact of the approval of Golenetskaya applications for the purchase of the opioid analgesic tramadol in volumes that are multiple of the real need of medical institutions in the region. The ex-deputy minister acted in order to demonstrate the effective development of subsidies allocated for health care in 2019.

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Фото: Press Service of the Ministry of Health of the Irkutsk Region

The investigating authorities proved that Golenetskaya authorized the purchase of more than 450 thousand packages of the painkiller with a total value of ₽35 million. The volume of tramadol purchased many times exceeded the needs of oncological patients in the region in this drug. As a result, a significant part of the drug was unclaimed by medical institutions.

The expiration date of the acquired tramadol led to the need for its complete destruction. The procedure for disposal of medicinal products was carried out in accordance with the established sanitary requirements. The regional budget suffered direct losses of more than ₽25 million due to damage to unused medicines.

By a court verdict, Elena Golenetskaya was also deprived of the right to hold certain public office for a period of three years. The court satisfied the claims of the deputy prosecutor of the Irkutsk region for compensation for material damage. Compensation in the amount of over ₽23 million is recovered from the convict in favor of the region.^[2]

Awards and Certificates

Elena Golenetskaya was awarded the awards "Excellence in Health Care," "Veteran of Labor," has the title "Honorary Worker of General Education of the Russian Federation," "Honored Worker of Health of the Russian Federation." He has certificates of a specialist in the specialties "Pediatrics," "Health Organization and Public Health," "Neonatology" and higher qualification categories in pediatrics and health organization.

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