The Krasnoyarsk Territory Office of the Investigative Committee has charged director of a nursing home in the settlement of Yemelyanovo with providing services that do not meet safety standards entailing death of 18 people under Part 3 of Article 238 of the RF Penal Code.
Preliminary investigation has established that from September 2011 to June 2016, the accused concluded with relatives of elderly people service contracts worth between 15 and 30 thousand a month or even more. The contract provided for such services as 24/7 living space, assistance with personal hygiene, meals and in case the inmate felt worse – calling an ambulance. After having been put in the nursing home, hardly anyone of elderly inmates aged between 78 and 93 lived for a month. The average time was just about 2 weeks. When elderly people felt worse, nobody called an ambulance, so they died. A forensic sanitary examination revealed considerable violations of sanitary norms dangerous of the lives and health of inmates. Some of those violations had been detected before by officials of Rospotrebnadzor (the federal consumer rights protection authority), but the director failed to eliminate them. The accused denies all the charges and does not repent. At present the nursing home continues operation but it has a different name. 15 people, all relatives of the dead, have been recognized as injured parties. By now the investigators have proven 18 deaths of elderly people.
All the circumstances of the crime are being looked into. The investigation is ongoing.
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