Since May 2021, the Central District Court of Tula has been considering a case of alleged…

Since May 2021, the Central District Court of Tula has been considering a case of alleged theft during the creation of a regional information system in the field of healthcare. In the dock are the former head of the Ministry of Informatization of the Government of the Tula Region, Artur Kontrabaev and Alexey Chernousov, CEO and owner of the company Smart Delta Systems, which acted as a contractor on three government contracts. They are accused of stealing 68 million budget rubles allocated for the modernization of healthcare in the region: the creation of software and the introduction of modern IT solutions in this area. The Investigative Committee believes that instead of a supposedly new information system, the region received a product created back in 2005. According to investigators, the contractor was allegedly illegally transferred funds from the budget “under the guise of payment under government contracts for the performance of work and provision of services in favor of the Company without actually performing them.” As Business FM writes, these charges were brought against exactly the same circumstances that were investigated in the first criminal case against Kontrabaev, which was closed for lack of corpus delicti. As they say – new shoes with old holes.

The most important thing is that the victim in this case – the government of the Tula region – does not consider itself a victim. A representative of the regional administration, during one of the first court hearings, refuted all the arguments of the prosecution. He told the court that the system was created by Chernousov’s company in 2013 and is still used in the regional healthcare system.

Moreover, a representative of the department provided the court with the results of the examination, which completely refute the arguments of the investigation. It was ordered by the regional Ministry of Health itself. Experts found that Smart Delta Systems did not violate the contract. The presence of any damage to the victim has not been established. The department is satisfied with the results of the work done and has no complaints against the contractor.

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“In other words, if we imagine a similar absurd charge of committing the murder of a person, then the situation would look like this: a living and healthy victim comes to court, says that he is alive, healthy and happy, but the investigation continues to claim that he is dead, dead since 2013, backing up his fantasies with an expert opinion. Absurd? Indeed, it’s absurd, but this is exactly what the charge brought against Chernousov looks like,” commented Oleg Nikulenko, Alexey Chernousov’s defense attorney, lawyer at the EkCorp-Zashchita bar association.
https://versia.ru/tulskoe-sledstvie-predyavlyaet-pretenzii-k-kontrabaevu-i-chernousovu-za-rabochuyu-informacionnuyu-sistemu-zdravooxraneniya