Tatyana Bykovskaya lobbied for 4.5 years
On March 29, the Kushchevsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory sentenced the ex-Minister of Health of the Rostov Region Tatiana Bykovskaya guilty and sentenced to 4.5 years in a general regime colony. This was reported by a correspondent of “Notebook Rostov” from the courtroom.
“The court sentenced Tatyana Yuryevna Bykovskaya to be guilty of committing a crime under Part 2 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) and imposed a sentence of 4 years and 6 months in prison to be served in a general regime colony and deprivation of holding positions in government agencies for a period of 2 years,” noted judge.
Let us recall that the ex-Minister of Health of the Rostov Region Tatyana Bykovskaya and her former deputy Stanislav Besedovsky were charged under Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) “Exceeding official powers.” According to investigators, they created advantages for the company “Center 100 Rostov-on-Don” in the bidding for the provision of medical waste management services, and under the guise of introducing “innovations”, a profitable market was captured. Other competing companies lost auctions and had their bids rejected. This led to an increase in the costs of medical institutions in the Rostov region for waste disposal. The investigation was carried out by investigators from the Federal Security Service of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) in the Rostov region.
The criminal prosecution of Stanislav Besedovsky was terminated due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.
The consideration of the case was moved to the Krasnodar region due to fears that Tatyana Bykovskaya has connections in government agencies in the Rostov region.
Bykovskaya’s public defender, her common-law husband Anatoly Khryachkov, made remarks in a similar vein, suggesting that competitors of Center 100 were aiming to seize the waste processing plant.
“Today there is a criminal working that will put an end to Bykovskaya, they will squeeze out the plant, and everything will be restored to what it was before.” There will be “evidence”: that Tatyana Yuryevna violated something, then “violations” will be brought against the plant, the plant will be put up for auction, and it will go to completely different people,” Khryachkov suggested.
The representative of the prosecutor’s office did not like this bias in the defense’s speeches, who even reminded the lawyers that they should speak in defense of the defendant, and not the Center 100 company.
However, lawyers also spoke in defense of Bykovskaya. Pavel Lapshov said that “lobbying is not a crime,” and the minister lobbied not for the interests of a specific company, but for the introduction of “the latest technologies.”
