Former chief freelance psychiatrist-narcologist Yevgeny Bryun of the Russian Ministry of Health, suspected of large-scale fraud and embezzlement, was detained.
“Questioned. A law enforcement source speaking to TASS said, based on the results, the issue of a restraint measure will be decided.” SEAD is under investigation by ATC.
“Brun is being checked to see if he is involved in a scandalous story with the introduction of new rules for medical examination of drivers,” said the agency’s interlocutor.
As part of the investigation of the criminal case, 27 addresses were searched, including the offices of companies involved in the case, as well as the homes of Brune and his colleagues.
Purchase of test systems
according to information Telegram channel 112Vladimir Yakushev, vice-president of the Russian Union of Narcology, was also detained.
“First of all, the suspects organized the purchase of tests and reagents at inflated prices by government agencies for the detection of drug addiction. To do this, they used a network of affiliated companies.
The RIA Novosti source is also knowledgeablethat the criminal case is linked to tenders for the supply of test systems. “We are talking about tenders related to one of the companies,” he said.
as recommended REN TV, a criminal case was opened after the 2019 scandal, during which a new regulation for obtaining medical certificates for the traffic police in Russia will come into force. Brune has been a vocal advocate of all drivers to be tested for CDT (carbohydrate deficient transferrin). This is a marker that may indicate chronic alcoholism.
Mediatrade, whose founder Vladimir Yakushev allegedly had close ties to Brun, helped regional medical institutions purchase the equipment and reagents necessary for the detection of the CDT marker in biological fluids.
Devices for such analyzes cost 6-8 million rubles and are not available in all specialized institutions. As a result, mandatory testing for CDT was not applied.
In February 2020, law enforcement agencies are already carried out Check Brune for history with tests. At the same time, FAS began to control the activities of Mediatrade LLC. Since 2015, the company has received 30 government contracts worth more than 57 million rubles.
who is brune
Brun graduated from the Khabarovsk State Medical Institute in 1973. Since 1987, he is the head of the department of organizing assistance to patients with drug addiction and substance abuse at the Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry. In 1988 he organized the first anonymous service and a hotline for drug addicts in the USSR.
From 1998 to 2017 – Director, since 2017 – Head of the Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for the Prevention of Drug Addiction. In 2009, he became the chief freelance specialist (psychiatrist-narcologist) of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
Following the news that Brun was detained, the Ministry of Health announced that he was dismissed from his position as the head of the department, a self-employed psychiatrist-narcologist.
“Yevgeny Bryun is not the main freelance expert of the ministry today. The position of the chief freelance specialist of a psychiatrist-narcologist was previously excluded from the nomenclature of the main freelance specialists of the Ministry of Health in the process of completion, ”the statement said.
Yakushev was one of the founders of the company Mediatrade, which, until 2016, provided devices for diagnosing alcohol dependence. He later became vice-president of the Russian Narcological Association and the Narcologists’ Association, headed by Brune.