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Materials Of ‘Doctors’ Case’ Passed To Court

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Materials Of ‘Doctors’ Case’ Passed To Court

Former Deputy Minister of Health is to appear on the dock.

Criminal cases of corruption in the medical field in Belarus have been transferred to court, the press-center of the Prosecutor General’s Office informs. Former Deputy Minister of Health Ihar Lasitski is to appear on the dock. He is accused of receiving a bribe by a person holding a responsible position (Part 3 of Article 430 of the Criminal Code). The case of the former chief of medicine of the 12th Minsk Clinical Dental Polyclinic of Minsk Uladzimir Krauchonak has also been passed to the court, Euroradio reports.

The article is "repeated receiving a bribe on a large scale" (Part 2 and 3 of Article 430 of the Criminal Code). One more case is the one of former head of the main health department of the Hrodna regional executive committee Andrei Stryzhak. The article is "repeated receiving a bribe on a large scale" (Part 2 of Article 430 of the Criminal Code). The criminal cases of Lasitski and Krauchonak a will be considered by the Minsk city court, the case of Stryzhak - by the Central district court of Minsk.

Criminal cases were in the production of the investigative department of the KGB. After studying the materials, the Prosecutor General’s Office concluded that the charges were substantiated, and there was sufficient evidence of the guilt of the defendants. Ihar Lasitski and Andrei Stryzhak are still behind bars, Uladzimir Krauchonak - under the house arrest.

A corruption scandal in the medical field broke out in the summer of 2018. The KGB detained more than 100 people - officials and businessmen associated with medicine. In the garage of the director of the enterprise "Belmedtekhnika" Aliaksandr Sharak found 620 thousand dollars in the equivalent.

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