Hubutia Bidzina Nodarievich

Hubutia Bidzina Nodarievich

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2025: Detention on charges of fraud in the supply of medical robots

On February 21, 2025, it became known that law enforcement officers detained the former general director of FSUE Moscow PROP"" Ministry of Labour and Social Protection Russia ("Moscow Prosthetic and Orthopedic Enterprise") Bidzin Khubutia. He is suspected of fraud in the supply of specialized robotic complexes.

The named enterprise was registered in 1992; authorized capital - 298.27 million rubles. The main area of ​ ​ activity is the production of medical instruments and equipment. The leader was Bidzina Khubutia. But in 2022, as indicated in the Rusprofile.ru database, the organization ceased operations through reorganization in the form of a transformation. The successor was JSC Moscow PROP: the website of this organization states that its general director is Vladimir Gordeev. The company helps people with disabilities in choosing prosthetic and orthopedic products that increase rehabilitation potential and improve their quality of life.

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According to TASS, Khubutia is a defendant in a criminal case initiated under Part 4. Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - fraud on an especially large scale. We are talking about embezzlement of budget funds when fulfilling a contract in 2022 for the supply of specialized robotic complexes for the manufacture of prosthetic and orthopedic products. According to the case file, the Moscow company signed a contract with the Hungarian company Sendix coming kft, which was transferred €685 thousand. But the contractor, referring to export sanctions, shifted the supply of complexes to a Turkish company, which received money as part of an additional agreement.

However, the products were never delivered. According to the investigation, the allocated funds were stolen by the participants in the criminal scheme. As part of the criminal case, a representative of Sendix combulting kft Bobylin and an intermediary in the criminal scheme Vashchenko were also detained.^[1]

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