Makovsky Evgeny Viktorovich

Makovsky Evgeny Viktorovich

Biography

2023: Arrest

On December 27, 2023, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow arrested acting Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "St. Petersburg Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums and an enterprise for the production of bacterial preparations" (SPbNIIVS) Yevgeny Makovsky. The man is accused of trying to receive a bribe on an especially large scale.

SPbNIIVES is the manufacturer of the Convasel drug, a vaccine against the coronavirus COVID-19. Makovsky became and. about. Director of this enterprise in September 2023 - after the previous head of the organization Viktor Trukhin was detained on charges of embezzlement of 437 million rubles.

According to the investigation, according to the Kommersant newspaper, Makovsky tried to get a bribe of 19.25 million rubles from the general director of Rusbiopharm LLC Sergei Issers for the extension of contracts between this company and SPbNIIVES for the supply of the Convasel vaccine. As an intermediary in receiving funds, Makovsky, according to court materials, attracted Igor Rudykh, an unemployed resident of Irkutsk. However, Issers went to law enforcement.

On December 18, 2023, Rudykh was detained while trying to receive the first part of a bribe in the amount of 8 million rubles. At the same time, Makovsky was also detained. It is noted that Rudykh did not admit his guilt. At the same time, he has an outstanding conviction for attempted murder (Article 30 and part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) of his fellow traveler on the train. In 2017, Rudykh, by verdict of the Dorogomilovsky court of Moscow, received six years and six months in prison for this.

The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow decided to satisfy the petition of the investigator of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and elect Makovsky, accused under Part 6 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (taking a bribe on an especially large scale), a preventive measure in the form of detention until February 20, 2024. Rudykh was charged under Part 4 of Art. 291.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (mediation in bribery on an especially large scale).^[1]

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