Tsaregorodtsev Sergei

Biography

2024: Arrest on charges of issuing fictitious conclusions about the "unusability" of conscripts

On January 22, 2024 MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Russia , the Office for announced Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Ugra (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug) the initiation of a criminal case on the fact of bribery in the military registration and enlistment office. As part of the case, Sergei Tsaregorodtsev, chairman of the military medical commission of the military commissariat of the city of Nizhnevartovsk and the Nizhnevartovsk district, was arrested.

The reason for initiating a criminal case was the report on the detection of signs of a crime. According to the investigation, in the period from 2020 to 2023, Tsaregorodtsev and three employees of health care institutions took bribes from residents through an intermediary for receiving the results of medical examinations, which give grounds for recognizing conscripts as unfit or limited fit for military service. As of the end of January 2024, 12 persons were identified from whom the accused received various amounts for issuing medical documents.

Military Commissariat of the city of Nizhnevartovsk

Tsaregorodtsev was arrested on charges under paragraph "c" of Part 5 of Art. 290 (taking a bribe on an especially large scale). The chairman of the medical commission did not admit his guilt. Two more health workers have been banned from certain actions. A nurse is also involved in the case, who, according to the investigation, transferred money as an intermediary: she was placed under house arrest.

According to the investigation, the cost of certificates began with 180 thousand rubles. In one of the episodes, the conscript's mother paid medical workers 250 thousand rubles, and the other evader gave over 290 thousand rubles for falsified medical documents. In relation to two persons who transferred money, criminal cases were initiated under paragraph "b" of part 4 of Art. 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (giving a bribe on a large scale).

Sergei Tsaregorodtsev is now in a state of shock. He is presented with two episodes on bribes, - informed persons.[1]

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