Today representatives of the patient and anti-corruption organizations have organized a protest action in front of the Podolsk district court demanding to close the case and stop placing pressure on the activists. The fact is that \u201cBohatyreva’s witnesses\u201d, people who worked with her at the MoH and dealt with procurement of medicine, filed a case against the teams of CF \u201cPatients of Ukraine\u201d and the Anti-Corruption Action Center.<\/p>\n
The activists and patients conducted a special test for \u201cBohatyreva’s witnesses\u201d for their sanity because people involved in the procurement of medicines in the days of Bohatyreva and now ‘arguing’ against it cannot be sane, as the activists consider.<\/p>\n
As a reminder, Mr. Dmytro Pidturkin, a former adviser of the ex-minister of health Raisa Bohatyreva, and a member of 12 MoH working groups on a part-time basis goes into litigation with the CF \u201cPatients of Ukraine\u201d and the Anti-Corruption Action Center. The reason for the case is the article written by Olga Stefanyshyna in the Ukrainska Pravda<\/em> paper \u201cHow Pharmaceutical Dealers Discredit International Organizations Procuring Medicines\u201c<\/a>, <\/u>where Dmytro Pidturkin is mentioned as the medical expert and procurement adviser in 2011-2013 for Raisa Bohatyreva. He argues his work with Raisa Bohatyreva and assures that he only acted as a formal advisor. According to Mr.\u00a0 Pidturkin, claims of the activists resulted in his \u201closs of close associates and friends whom he knew for many years\u201d and brought \u201cthrills and distress of soul\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is absurd as the Bohatyreva’s team being on an international wanted list for plundering state property instead of sitting in the prisoner’s box files a\u00a0 case against the activities who for years have been fighting against corruption at the Health Ministry\u201d,\u00a0 <\/em>states Oleksandra Ustinova,<\/strong> \u00a0a Board Member of the Anti-Corruption Action Center<\/strong>. \u00a0\u201cA case against us was brought by<\/em> Dmytro Pidturkin, who worked in the team with Roman Bohachev, Bohatyreva’s deputy and head of the MoH Tender Committee, <\/em>the person of interest<\/em><\/a> in several criminal cases for plundering state property.\u00a0 These Pidturkin’s actions prove that Bohatyreva’s team members\u00a0 cherish ambitious plans to return to the MoH and do everything to whitewash their image and to discredit people who disrupt this\u201d. <\/em><\/p>\n