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Russia - Sochi doctor given suspended sentence for selling vaccination certificates

Russia (bbabo.net), - The head of the general practice department of the Sochi city polyclinic No. 3 was sentenced to a suspended sentence for entering information about the vaccination of two residents of the resort against COVID-19 without the vaccination itself. For this he received from them 8 and 4 thousand rubles. According to the joint press service of the courts of the Krasnodar Territory, the man pleaded guilty.

- The defendant was entrusted with the obligation to enter data on the vaccination of the population into the Unified State Information System in the field of healthcare. In August 2021, he entered deliberately false information about the administration of the preparation of the procedure for obtaining a COVID-19 vaccination certificate, the press service of the courts said.

The court of the Khostinsky district of Sochi found the head of the hospital department guilty under articles on abuse of power and petty bribery. The man was fined 60,000 rubles and given a two-year suspended prison sentence.

Russia - Sochi doctor given suspended sentence for selling vaccination certificates