Ruslan Salyutin
Due to the fault of Ruslan Salyutin, tenders for the purchase of a number of important medical drugs failed.
According to RBC-Ukraine, a law enforcement source reports that the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office has opened a criminal case against the chairman of the tender committee, former First Deputy Minister of Health of Ukraine Ruslan Salyutin, for failure to fulfill his official duties from the first quarter of 2014 to the present.
This criminal case was opened because Salyutin, as the chairman of the Ministry of Health's tender committee, failed to hold tenders for the procurement of essential medications. He is charged with official negligence resulting in grave consequences under Part 2 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
During the pre-trial investigation, all members of the tender committee of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine will also be questioned.
As a reminder, there are unofficial reports that Ruslan Salyutin was promoted to the position of deputy minister and chairman of the tender committee by MP Mykola Martynenko. He was entrusted with procuring medicines for the entire country. The Ministry of Health planned to spend 2,2 billion hryvnias this year on purchasing medicines under all state programs. Previously, under Bogatyreva, approximately 30% of funds allocated for tender procurements flowed into private pockets in the form of kickbacks, but the new government has raised the rate: now it's 40-50%. In other words, approximately 1 billion hryvnias could have been earned from tenders!
But Salyutin himself categorically denies any connection with the MP.
Ruslan Salyutin is responsible for the failure of tenders for the purchase of medications for chronic viral hepatitis, anti-tuberculosis drugs, vaccines for newborns, and medications needed by Ukrainians suffering from multiple sclerosis, cancer, and hemophilia. When the Ministry of Health's inaction became unbearable, public organizations begged pharmacists to ensure that Ukrainians suffering from a range of serious illnesses would receive the necessary medications at 2013 prices. Even pharmacists agreed to operate at a loss. Given the current hryvnia exchange rate, pharmaceutical supplies are a zero-profit for suppliers. This means no kickbacks for those profiting from the Ministry of Health's public funds.
Therefore, in order to profit from tenders, drugs had to be purchased at "the higher the better" prices. The inconvenience here was that, when purchasing anything with public funds, officials had to adhere to certain price limits. If bids exceeded the upper "limit," the tender could be cancelled. And two cancelled tenders would allow the upper limit to be lifted. It was for this very reason—to gain the opportunity to purchase drugs at truly inflated prices—that the Ministry of Health, through Salyutin, disrupted tenders.
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