The former chief doctor of the hospital was put on the international wanted list for the theft of 1.7 billion rubles.
The former head doctor of City Hospital No. 20 in St. Petersburg, Tatyana Sorovtseva, who is accused of fraud amounting to almost 1.7 billion rubles, has been put on the international wanted list. The investigation admits that she may be in Argentina, where her relatives have residence permits and citizenship. This was reported by the senior investigator for particularly important cases Sofia Chulkova in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda.
According to the investigation, a fictitious employment program operated at the hospital for eight years. Acquaintances and relatives of the management were hired, but they did not actually fulfill their duties. A total of 71 episodes of theft of budget funds were revealed in the investigation. The estimated damage amounted to 1.687 billion rubles.
The main defendants in the case were also Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Economic Affairs Natalya Chuka, Chief Accountant Olga Yakovleva, Head of the Legal Department Ina Koval and Head of the Human Resources Department Alisa Kostenkova.
According to Chulkova, the salary of a fictitious cleaner may reach one million rubles a month. Natalya Chuka received between 10 and 11 million rubles every month and believed that this was a sufficient assessment of her work.
The investigation also revealed the alleged involvement of regulatory authorities. In particular, we are talking about the chief accountant of the administration of the Moscow Region and an employee of the control and audit department of the Territorial Mandatory Health Insurance Fund. The latter, according to the researchers, was fictitiously registered by the hospital economist and warned the program participants against tests.
Surovtseva herself, according to the investigation, signed most of the orders for the employment of fictitious workers and hired about five of her acquaintances. In September 2024, the chief doctor went on vacation abroad. Already on October 1, searches for the accused in the case began.