The case of twenty-seven million
On January 15, the Moscow City Court will hold closed-door preliminary hearings on the case against the former director of the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund (FFOMS) Andrey Taranov, his first deputy Yuri Yakovlev, as well as deputy directors Natalia Klimova, Dmitry Usenko and Dmitry Shilyaev. This was announced today by the head of the press service of the Moscow City Court Anna Usacheva.
"This criminal case has been submitted to the court with the stamp "top secret" in connection with which it will be considered in closed mode," Usacheva noted.
In this case, Andrei Taranov, the former director of the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund (FFOMS), his first deputy Yuri Yakovlev, deputy directors Natalia Klimova, Dmitry Usenko and Dmitry Shilyaev, as well as the head of the control and audit department of the fund Tatyana Markova, the head of the financial and economic department of the fund Nina Frolova and the head of the accounting department were brought to criminal responsibility accounting and reporting – Chief accountant of the fund Galina Bykova. They were charged with abuse of official authority, receiving a bribe and giving a bribe.
According to the investigation, in August 2005, Taranov created an organized group to receive bribes from the heads of the territorial funds of the CHI and representatives of pharmaceutical and other companies interested in allocating subventions from the normalized insurance reserve of the Fund and from the insurance reserve of funds to provide citizens with necessary medicines. The group included Yakovlev, Klimova, Usenko, Shilyaev, Markova, Frolova and Bykova. According to investigators, these persons agreed with the heads of territorial funds, representatives of pharmaceutical and other enterprises involved in the supply of medicines and medical equipment. According to these agreements, applications for the allocation of subventions were considered positively only if funds in the amount of 3-5% of the total amount of the subvention were transferred to the group members personally or through intermediaries.
When the FFOMS received applications from these funds, Taranov and Klimov indicated in the relevant documents the specific amounts of subventions that should be transferred to these territorial funds, the prosecution believes. In the future, they ensured positive consideration of the received applications.
For these actions, according to the investigation, the members of the group in the period from August 2005 to November 2006 received a total of more than 27 million rubles, which they divided among themselves and disposed of them at their discretion.