Healing Disorders: the scandalous "miracle doctor" Rayevsky continued the pseudo-treatment of cancer

The "magic Doctor" Dmitry Rayevsky, who allegedly treated cancer and other serious diseases with the imposition of hands and "energy of the heart," has again been spotted in Russia conducting his "healing" activities, Izvestia found out. However, he did not stay in Russia for long and had already left for Turkey. Rayevsky has been in hiding since 2023, when a criminal case was opened against him under articles on fraud and the provision of improper services. After that, he fled to Kazakhstan, and his clinics in Russia were closed. Read more about the activities of Rayevsky and the new victims in the Izvestia article.

New victims

Dmitry Rayevsky, who was prosecuted for fraud and improper provision of services in 2023, returned to Russia. Since the spring of this year, he has been periodically appearing in the country to conduct sessions with "laying hands" on different parts of the body or chanting mantras to supposedly cure patients with serious illnesses. Rayevsky guarantees that his actions will only lead to their recovery.

The "magic doctor", as Izvestia found out, gave face-to-face consultations in Moscow. He showed how to carry out the recommended treatment on his own, and then left and supervised the process via video link from Turkey. One of the victims, Olga, appealed to the Investigative Committee with a request to stop Rayevsky's activities.

The woman told Izvestia that her mother and father went to Chita for a month's vacation in July. There she suddenly became ill, doctors diagnosed her with a brain tumor and edema.

— Mom was stabilized in Chita and sent to Moscow. I arranged for her to be hospitalized at the N.N. Burdenko National Medical Research Center for Neurosurgery. But my brother met them at the airport and immediately took them home," the patient's daughter noted.

According to Olga, in Moscow, her mother changed her mind about going to the hospital.

— I learned from my father that Rayevsky came to their house. He put his hands on Mom's head, chanted some mantras, and told his brother to do the same for several months. Supposedly, this way the tumor will exit through the lymph nodes," Olga said.

Now, according to the patient's daughter, Rayevsky is in Turkey and remotely supervises the "treatment" of her mother.

— I can see that his methods are only ruining my mother, she is melting before my eyes, I can see it in the photos. But there's nothing I can do about it. Her father and brother are with her, but they won't let me into their apartment. And Mom stopped calling and writing to me altogether," Olga complained.

Rayevsky said that the improvement in his condition should be noticeable in three to four months, the victim added. Olga said that during the first two months of online monitoring of sessions, the healer demanded to transfer half a million rubles to him - 250 thousand per month, and then, according to him, the amount should increase.

The Izvestia correspondent tried to get into the apartment where Olga's mother is staying. But the woman flatly refused to communicate with him.: She slammed the door in front of the journalist.

The patient's daughter clarified that her brother has known Rayevsky for several years: he and his wife went to this doctor to cure their son's adenoids.

— But the situation was unpleasant then. My brother tried to borrow money from me for his son's "treatment," but I refused. Then he went to his parents, lied to them that he needed money for the removal of adenoids in the hospital, and they gave him 100 thousand rubles," Olga added.

According to the woman, she does not know if the treatment has helped her nephew, as her brother does not communicate with her.

Where else have you noticed Rayevsky

In the spring of 2025, Rayevsky conducted sessions in the Moscow region, in the village of Borisovo, Izvestia found out.

— And if in 2023 he held sessions there in a small cottage, now the house has grown to an entire estate.: There is a four—storey building and two more buildings on the site," the editorial correspondent reports.

There, Rayevsky "treats" children and adults with unregistered drugs in Russia. For example, he calls one of them "Newcastle" — supposedly it is a medicine with the avian flu virus.

— I have a friend who makes Newcastle. He pours it for me," Rayevsky told Izvestia.

— Is the virus taking off? — the correspondent specified.

—Yes,— Rayevsky replied.

The mother of a girl with cancer, Ainura Aydingaieva, told Izvestia that it was this drug that the "miracle doctor" administered to her child. But the daughter got worse, and the family refused Rayevsky's services.

"He insisted that treatment can only take place if you give up chemo or radiotherapy," the woman said.

After the release of the Izvestia story about Rayevsky's activities in the Moscow region, the investigative committee for the region became interested in him. A criminal case has now been opened under the article on fraud, but not against a specific person, but against a man who carries out medical activities in one of the settlements of the Moscow region.

"The Chairman of the Investigative Committee instructed the head of the GSU of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Moscow region, Ya.A. Yakovlev, to submit a report on the progress of the investigation of the criminal case and the circumstances established. The execution of the order has been put under control at the central office of the department," the Investigative Committee said.

What else is the doctor "famous for"?

Rayevsky (real name — Gleb Alexandrov) conducted his "healing" activities in Russia in 2023 in clinics in Moscow, in St. Petersburg, held receptions at the estate in the village of Borisovo near Sergiev Posad. There were injured and dead people among his patients.

So, the "doctor" tried to get rid of headaches and eye diseases by manipulating his hands and singing mantras to Maria Makeeva, Rayevsky took $800 for this. But there was no result, the victim told Izvestia.

The son of Natalia Okhulkova, a pensioner from the Sverdlovsk region, was diagnosed with stage four cancer, doctors rejected him, and he decided to go to Rayevsky as his last hope, the woman told Izvestia. The healer took more than 1.5 million rubles for his sessions, but the treatment did not help — the man died.

At the same time, Rayevsky stated that during his career he had "cured dozens of people." And people died, he explained, not because of his fault, but because they had, for example, an "evil aura."

After inspections by the Investigative Committee, several Rayevsky clinics in Moscow and St. Petersburg were closed. He and his students left Russia for Kazakhstan, where he also has a network of clinics. There, three of his accomplices were detained and charged with fraud. Rayevsky also has branches in Kyrgyzstan.

Rayevsky took a pseudonym after a high-profile scandal: 12 years ago, the prosecutor's office issued him a warning about the inadmissibility of conducting extremist activities for organizing the Children of the Sun festival in Altai. Leaflets were distributed at this event, which promoted the superiority of one type of person over others, the prosecutor's office said at the time.

What kind of punishment can Rayevsky face?

The "magic doctor" could face up to ten years in prison under the article on fraud, and up to 12 years under the article on improper provision of services, lawyer Andrei Mishonov reminded Izvestia.

According to the expert, if captured, Rayevsky may face imprisonment in a high—security colony with a possible term of imprisonment of about 20 years, according to the totality of the articles imputed to him.

But lawyer Vitaly Ulianenko noted that Rayevsky would not be easy to convict.

"Russia cannot always quickly achieve extradition, especially if we are talking about countries with which there is no direct agreement or where the courts carefully check the validity of the request," he explained. — Formally, Rayevsky is wanted, but it is possible to physically deprive him of freedom only if he is detained in Russia or after a court decision of another country on extradition.

Despite the fact that he is still at large, victims can file civil lawsuits in the framework of a criminal case for compensation for property damage and compensation for moral damage, Andrei Mishonov added.

"Russian courts often award tens of thousands to several million rubles in such cases, depending on the scale of the tragedy," he said.

But if the person involved does not have official property or is hiding abroad, the enforcement of court decisions becomes problematic, the lawyer noted. The fact of the court decision opens up opportunities for further lawsuits and international asset searches.