Police: 1,5 million stolen from medications for children with cancer

drugs corruptionThe National Police is investigating the purchase of drugs for children with cancer at inflated prices.
This became known from the ruling of the Pechersk Court of Kyiv dated August 16, 2016, posted in the Unified Register of Court Decisions.
According to court documents, the Main Investigative Department of the National Police is conducting an investigation (begun on July 4, 2016) into the fact of embezzlement of other people's funds, on an especially large scale (Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine),
Investigators are investigating the circumstances under which officials from the Ministry of Health and two companies – Sinmedik Ltd. and Medfarcom-Center – embezzled budget funds allocated by the ministry for the purchase of medications for the treatment of children with cancer and oncohematological diseases.
The founders of Sinmedik Ltd. are Jassal Manawa and Sanjeev Kumar. The beneficiary of Medfarcom-Center is François Zürscher, a Swiss citizen.
The said purchases took place in 2014.
According to court documents, Sinmedik Ltd., following a procurement process involving related companies, supplied the Ministry of Health with 9890 Voritab-200 tablets at an inflated price (1820 hryvnias per package) through an intermediary, Medfarcom-Center. The Ministry of Health transferred funds for the supplied medications to Medfarcom-Center's account.
Thus, officials from the Ministry of Health, Sinmedik Ltd., and Medfarkom-Center embezzled budget funds totaling 1,47 million hryvnias, according to criminal case materials.
To establish or refute the involvement of officials from the Ministry of Health, Sinmedik Ltd, and Medfarcom-Center in the commission of the crime, the court granted investigators access to:
documentation of the competitive bidding for the purchase of Voritab-200 in 2014;
competitive (price) proposals of participants in the procurement of medicinal products in 2014;
minutes of the meeting of the competitive bidding committee for procurement in 2014;
notification and acceptance of competitive (price) proposals for procurement in 2014;
contracts concluded during 2014 with Medfarkom-Center LLC for the supply of Voritab-200 with all appendices and additional agreements;
accounting and tax accounting documents confirming the receipt and acceptance of the medicinal product under contracts concluded in 2014 with Medfarkom-Center LLC, namely: acts, invoices, delivery notes, tax invoices, statements from the relevant accounting accounts;
Documents confirming payments to Medfarcom-Center LLC for the supplied medicinal product "Voritab-200", namely: receipts, invoices, information on the relevant accounts, reports...

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