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2025: Sentence - 5 years in prison for bribes
The Pervomaisky District Court of Izhevsk sentenced the former Deputy Minister of Health of Udmurtia Natalya Kropocheva to five years in prison in a general regime colony for receiving a bribe in the amount of ₽1,3 million. The court also imposed a fine of ₽1,3 million, deprived the right to hold public office for two years and decided to confiscate the amount of the bribe. Kropocheva's accomplice Svetlana Suslonova received four years in prison in a general regime colony and a fine of ₽1,3 million. This was announced by the prosecutor's office of the Udmurt Republic on October 13, 2025.
As reported in the official Telegram channel of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Udmurt Republic, the investigation and the court found that Natalya Kropocheva, who served as the chief physician of the city clinical hospital No. 2, received a bribe in the form of money in the total amount of ₽1,3 million from 2021 to 2023 in parts through an intermediary. The funds were transferred for the conclusion of a contract for the transportation of the bodies of the dead from the medical institution headed by her.
After receiving a bribe, Kropocheva, being the chief doctor, and subsequently the deputy minister of health, ensured the provision of information on the deaths of citizens in order to conclude agreements with the funeral organization with relatives of the deceased on the provision of funeral services. The scheme allowed the entrepreneur to obtain confidential information about hospital patients for the subsequent conclusion of commercial contracts.
In 2024, Kropocheva, being the chief physician of the city clinical hospital No. 2, fictitiously employed her friend Svetlana Suslonov as a dermatovenerologist. During the period of fictitious employment, Suslonov illegally received money as a salary in the amount of more than ₽111 thousand. In fact, Suslonova did not fulfill her labor duties and did not provide medical services to patients.
The court found Kropocheva guilty of taking a bribe on an especially large scale and abuse of office. Suslonova was found guilty of mediation in bribery on an especially large scale and complicity in abuse of office.[1][2]
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