Man Dies After Beautician's IV

The Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case into the death of a man who became ill after an IV drip "to boost his immunity" given to him by a cosmetologist he knew. The Kazan resident died several months ago, but the Investigative Committee reported the case on August 21, following publications "in social media and the media."

On August 21, the Shot Telegram channel published a story recorded from the words of the wife of the deceased, 30-year-old Vitaly Regin. Shot did not name the woman. According to the story, the woman saw an advertisement for vitamin drips from a friend of hers, Kazan cosmetologist Angie Sibagatova, several months ago. The wife suffered from severe swelling after childbirth and therefore contacted this friend, the Telegram post says.

The post included a screenshot that looked like correspondence between the narrator and the cosmetologist, from which it followed that she was offering one 400-milliliter bottle of the drug at a price starting from four thousand rubles. His wife Regina, Shot writes, ordered two, for herself and for her husband, who "agreed to take the drops for company — to boost his immunity."

According to the Telegram channel, the cosmetologist came to the family's home in the cottage village of Turgai near Kazan to administer IVs. According to the wife, the cosmetologist did not specify whether her clients had chronic diseases or allergies to medications — she administered IVs and left. Soon, according to the woman, she and her husband began to feel unwell: their temperature rose and they began vomiting. The family called an ambulance. According to her, the wife felt better, and her husband was taken to the hospital. The day after the IV injection, the man died of internal gastrointestinal bleeding that developed against the background of chronic gastritis, Shot writes.

On August 22, when it became known that the Investigative Committee had opened a criminal case, Shot published a new post with a story from the deceased man's wife. According to the story, the syringe from the IV contained the remains of a solution with strong tranquilizers and neuroleptics, "which narcologists usually prescribe after a long binge." Shot, citing Regin's wife, writes that the man worked as a driver, did not drink alcohol and "did not use anything."

The Telegram channel quotes a cosmetologist who claims that the husband and wife were "drug addicts" and that she had allegedly given the man an IV drip with the same drug without any consequences. The post includes a video clip in which the cosmetologist tells how the wife, after her husband's death, began to extort money from her to pay for tests. According to the cosmetologist, some acquaintances of the family from the Republican Clinical Hospital "calculated the tests at 200 thousand rubles."

The Regin family has two children left, Shot wrote. The Investigative Committee opened a case under Article 238 of the Criminal Code "Provision of services that do not meet the requirements for the safety of life or health of consumers", the maximum penalty for which is six years in prison and a fine of 500 thousand rubles.

There are Instagram and VKontakte pages of Endzhe Sibagatova from Kazan, who positions herself as a “top cosmetologist” with a medical education and a specialization in “addiction treatment.” Both pages are private, Sibagatova’s Telegram channel has been deleted.

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