The UK will investigate the supply of counterfeit gloves to medical institutions.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin gave instructions after the Izvestia report on the supply of counterfeit gloves to medical institutions in various regions of the Russian Federation. This was announced on July 1 by the press service of the Investigative Committee.

Earlier, Izvestia reported that in Buryatia, entrepreneurs purchased medical gloves of inadequate quality from China and supplied them under the guise of domestic products to hospitals and polyclinics in several regions of the Russian Federation, for example, in Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin, Smolensk, Saratov and Astrakhan regions. The damage from the scam amounted to 1.5 billion rubles.

"The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia gave instructions after a television report on the supply of counterfeit products to medical institutions in a number of subjects of the Russian Federation," the agency's Telegram channel says.

It is clarified that the investigative authorities of the Investigative Committee for the Astrakhan region have opened a criminal case on fraud and the provision of unsafe services. In addition, in Buryatia, a procedural check was organized on reports of substandard medical devices.

"The head of the department instructed I.S. Mogushkov, head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Astrakhan Region, to report on the progress of the investigation of the criminal case, and E.V. Lagatsky, head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Buryatia, to submit a report on the circumstances established as part of the procedural audit," the Investigative Committee added.

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On January 23, Moscow suppressed the activities of organizers of the sale of counterfeit medicines. Law enforcement officers seized counterfeit drugs worth more than 10 million rubles, and as part of the investigation, five people were detained and charged under Part 2 of Article 238.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Sale of substandard and unregistered medical devices on a large scale").