Podkosova Elena Aleksandrovna

Podkosova Elena Aleksandrovna

Biography

2022: Initiation of criminal case on bribe

On April 8, 2022, it became known about the initiation of a criminal case against the former chief physician of one of the hospitals in Tula, suspected of committing a crime under Part 3 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code (receiving a bribe).

According to the press service of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Tula Region, in the period 2020-2021. A medical worker systematically received funds for illegally providing personal data of those who died in a medical institution. Having received these data, the employees of the funeral agency forced the relatives of the deceased to conclude contracts with them for the provision of paid ritual services. A criminal case has been instituted against a person providing ritual services suspected of committing a crime under Part 3 of Art. 291 of the Criminal Code (giving a bribe). The names of the defendants in the case in the UK are not disclosed.

According to the Tula representative office of the newspaper "Arguments and Facts," we are talking about Elena Podkosova, who headed the City Hospital No. 3 in Tula for four years until April 2022. On April 4, she transferred to the post of head physician of the Tula Regional Hospice.

On April 11, 2022, the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Tula Region reported that a court in Tula, at the request of the investigation, also arrested two former police officers and four employees of funeral agencies accused of giving bribes. Investigators opened criminal cases under Part 3 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code (receiving an official bribe for illegal actions). According to the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, they were dismissed from the bodies for negative reasons.

By April 2022, investigative actions are being carried out in a criminal case aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the incident. Investigative and operational measures are also being taken to identify other facts of receipt of funds by medical workers from persons providing ritual services.^[1]

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