Penza, 19 April 2018. PenzaNews. The Pervomaisky district court of Penza selected a measure of restraint in the form of custody against the former head doctor of the regional oncology dispensary, Vitaly Serebryakov, on Thursday, April 19. This was reported by the press service of the court, Sergei Maslov.

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According to him, Vitaly Serebryakov will remain in custody for the next two months.

He specified that at that moment the defendant had the status of a suspect and had not been charged yet.

As it was reported before, the criminal case against Vitaly Serebryakov under Part 6, Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Bribe-taking" was instituted on the basis of the results of operational-investigative activities conducted by the regional department of the Federal Security Service.

According to the investigation, on April 13, 2018, the head of the oncology dispensary received an illegal compensation in the amount exceeding 1 million roubles from a legal entity. For this amount the head of the oncology dispensary had to create conditions for participation of the legal entity in auctions for the supply of medicine as well as for conclusion of contracts with it.

On 14 April the head of the institution was relieved of his duties.

On April 19, during a meeting with head doctors Ivan Belozertsev stated that he will not allow Vitaly Serebryakov to continue holding senior positions in medicine.