An employee of the Vaccine Research Institute in St. Petersburg received 9.5 years in a case involving the purchase of eggs

The Moscow COURT of St. Petersburg sentenced Andrei Vasiliev, an employee of the Institute of Vaccines and Serums in St. Petersburg , to 9.5 years of imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony , finding him guilty of accepting a BRIBE when purchasing hatching eggs, the united press service of the courts of St. Petersburg reported.

According to the case materials, Vasiliev, while serving as Deputy DIRECTOR for Economics and Finance at the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency of RUSSIA from November 29, 2018 to June 11, 2020, illegally received money from the Deputy General Director of Stadium LLC in the total amount of at least 30 million rubles.

For this money, Vasiliev, according to the investigation, ensured that Stadium LLC won the procurement for the supply of hatching chicken eggs , conducted by the Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums with an initial maximum contract price of 153.8 million rubles.

In addition to imprisonment, the court also imposed a fine of 29.9 million rubles on Vasiliev and denied him the right to hold positions in the civil service for a period of 10 years.

The defendant pleaded not guilty.

Founded in 1886, the Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums is the developer of the Convasel vaccine against covid-19 . The Institute also produces full-cycle influenza vaccines.