Mursalov Samir

Mursalov Samir

Biography

2021:8 years in prison for bribes

In mid-October 2021, the St. Petersburg Garrison Military Court sentenced the former head of the military medical commission (VVK) of the city military registration and enlistment office Samir Mursalov, who was accused of giving conscripts medical reports for bribes that they were unfit for service in the army. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison, according to the joint press service of the city courts.

The investigation and the court found that not earlier than April 2009, Samir Mursalov created a criminal group in order to receive cash bribes for the doctors of military registration and enlistment offices to recognize conscripts as unfit for service and exempt them from conscription for health.

Realizing his plan, he, both personally and through other accomplices, involved persons in the criminal group to fulfill the following roles in receiving bribes, the case file says.

Group members received bribes in the amount of 120 thousand to 250 thousand rubles. In total, the court recognized 8 criminal episodes for a total amount of bribes in the amount of 1.2 million rubles.

Three more defendants received terms: Sergey Krupoderov and Vladimir Kachko - 7.5 years probation (from 3 and 3.5 years of probation), Dmitry Beda - 7 years probation (with 2 years of probation).

Four - Andrei Ivanov, Andrey Sorochinsky, Alexander Filkov and Vadim Vinogradov - are required to pay a fine of 100 thousand rubles, and Marina Kravtsova - 130 thousand rubles.

Earlier in St. Petersburg, a former military commissar of the Primorsky district and a doctor of the medical commission of the Krasnoselsky district were arrested for selling military tickets. The court also detained Olga Leonova, an employee of the city military registration and enlistment office, then searches in the bribe case took place in 17 military registration and enlistment offices.

The command of the Western Military District denied this information. According to preliminary information, a scheme for falsifying diagnoses at the level of district draft commissions, whose decisions were allegedly certified by Mursalov, was allegedly debugged in St. Petersburg.^[1]

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