Tatyana Bykovskaya received parole

Law enforcement officers arrested Tatyana Bykovskaya in November 2019. Investigators believed that while serving as the Minister of Health of the Rostov Region, she had been assisting Alexander Danchenko, head of the Swiss company AFD Group SA, for a year. His company had established Center 100 Rostov-on-Don, a medical waste disposal company in the region.

As a result of the tender, the organization entered into an anti-competitive agreement with the regional Ministry of Health and four local medical organizations for the provision of services for the management of class "B" medical waste.

Another defendant in the case was Deputy Minister Stanislav Besedovsky, who was suspected under Part 5 of Article 33 and Part 4 of Article 159 of the Russian Criminal Code (aiding and abetting fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale). According to the Investigative Committee, the official allegedly received technical documentation from the company's general director for the tender, despite knowing the supplier would be unable to fulfill the contract terms. As a result, contracts worth 45.2 million rubles were signed with Center 100 Rostov-on-Don. The damage from Bykovskaya and Besedovsky's actions was estimated at 10.9 million rubles.

Immediately after their arrest, Tatyana Bykovskaya was placed under house arrest, and Stanislav Besedovsky was remanded in custody. His pretrial detention was later relaxed. The court began hearing the former officials' case in July 2022.

In October 2023, the court ordered Bykovskaya and Besedovsky to be remanded in pretrial detention, finding that since the defendants continued to work in the Rostov Region healthcare system, they could exert pressure on their colleagues who were witnesses in the case.

In January 2024, the criminal case against Stanislav Besedovsky was dismissed by court order due to the expiration of the criminal liability period. During the closing arguments, the prosecution requested a five-year sentence in a general regime penal colony for Tatyana Bykovskaya.

The Kushchevsky District Court of Krasnodar Krai announced the former minister's sentence in late March 2024. Bykovskaya was found guilty and sentenced to 4.5 years in a general regime penal colony. The former official's defense repeatedly appealed the verdict. On January 14, 2025, the Fourth Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction in Krasnodar dismissed the defense's appeal.