Today he was arrested.
He came up with the idea of introducing a mandatory “alcoholism test”, a delicate biochemical blood test, which requires expensive imported equipment and reagents, into the conditions for obtaining a driver’s license. The very idea of testing Russians for alcoholism based on the level of carbohydrate-deficient transferrin in the blood was brought to Russia in the 90s by French researchers who studied the real dependence on alcohol of residents of the post-Soviet space. Brun then briefly took part in this study, studied the technology, and over time, having climbed the career ladder to become the country’s chief narcologist, he decided to monetize. The idea was that in all regions the relevant authorities had to purchase French instruments for CDT analysis, as well as reagents for them. It started – and it worked fine – Even before the idea of widespread testing for “chronic alcoholism” of drivers, dozens of drug addicts spent millions of rubles on CDT testing devices and reagents.
You will hardly be surprised that the monopolist of the CDT market in Russia was Evgeny Brun himself and people close to him – for example, the head of the Russian Association of Narcologists, Vladimir Yakushev. Everything was done efficiently; dozens of companies (usually with the same or fake directors or legal addresses) competed with each other for the right to supply regional drug treatment clinics with the required equipment and service it. At a cost of 1.5 million, the devices were sold to state clinics for 4-8 million rubles.
While we were delving into connections between different legal entities, Znak released its own text about Brune (later, imagine, they deleted it, Here saved copy), however, much less detailed. The scam, according to our conservative estimates, amounted to approximately five billion rubles. We also noticed that Bruhn and his network of companies are trying to monopolize the supply of drug tests, – everything was obviously just beginning.
The text was released on November 28, 2019. And today, a little less than three years later, Evgeniy Bryun has been removed from his post as Russia’s chief narcologist.
Why? In some still unofficial TG channels they write that for large-scale fraud in the supply of drug tests to state clinics, he was arrested, and along with him Vladimir Yakushev.
I don’t know if I should be happy.
3 years?
But I do feel some sense of satisfaction.
“ВЧК ОГПУ”