"Where is the money, Zin?"

The targeted drug assistance program has been disrupted, this was a statement made today by the control chamber of the regional Duma. The audit showed that officials used medicine money almost uncontrollably and to date beneficiaries have received almost 20 million rubles less in medicine. The targeted drug assistance program was adopted a year ago. Today the deputies summed up its first results. They turned out to be simply discouraging. The regional pharmacy department disrupted the program. According to the most conservative estimates, the activities of officials resulted in twelve million lost for beneficiaries. Some put the figure at 20 million. The auditors literally poured out facts of financial irregularities. The main accusation is the almost uncontrolled handling of huge amounts of medicinal money.
All this puzzled the deputies so much that Evgeniy Rubtsov, who chaired the committee, even asked if he had understood everything correctly. The auditors confirmed that everyone understood everything correctly. Moreover, immediately after the end of the inspection, the control chamber sent an urgent order to the Pharmacy Department: to immediately submit documents for every budget penny spent. The acting head of the Pharmacy Department, Nikolai Karavaev, was called to account. He began by accusing the control chamber of lack of competence. There are no financial documents on the expenditure of budget funds. Nikolai Karavaev considers the conclusions drawn from this fact to be incorrect. He did not explain what correct conclusions there could be. But instead, he presented the same program for this year and asked for money for it. This surprised the deputies for the second time.