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Big money raw over medicaments
Russia-IC ^ | December 1, 2006 | Olga Pletneva

Posted on 12/01/2006 5:01:31 AM PST by eastern

Russia has never witnessed the corruption scandal of such a size: all highest ranks working for the federal fund of compulsory medical insurance have been arrested. The range of activity shown by the institution makes other ministries and departments envy: the budget of over 100bn rubles, hundreds of branches all over the country, its representatives work with the vast majority of the population.

However, the current situation can’t be so positively estimated due to seven top-managers of the organization arrested for inappropriate use of budgeting funds and bribery. Besides, the searches conducted in about two dozens of regions resulted in confiscation of money and values amounted to millions of dollars. What could produce such an effect? Arrested civil servants must have stepped on the tenderest corn of the state – its social policy.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: corruption; medicaments; pharmaceuticals; scandal

1 posted on 12/01/2006 5:01:32 AM PST by eastern
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To: eastern
all highest ranks working for the federal fund of compulsory medical insurance have been arrested

Sounds like future world and HillaryCare.

2 posted on 12/01/2006 6:51:02 AM PST by x_plus_one (Franklin Graham: "Allah is not the God of Moses. Allah had no son")
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