OREANDA-NEWS. August 10, 2010. Konstantin Chuychenko submitted a report to Dmitry Medvedev on the audit of budget spending on medical equipment.

In particular, the Chief of the Presidential Control Directorate briefed the President about the audit of the regions’ acquisition of 170 tomographic scanners worth in total 7.5 billion rubles. Mr Chuychenko reported that in some cases the purchase prices were two or three times higher than manufacturer prices.

Mr Medvedev stressed that he will instruct the Prosecutor General’s Office to conduct an investigation and to prosecute the officials involved in the fraudulent purchases of expensive medical equipment.

In addition, the President signed an executive order to strengthen monitoring of cash flows in the federal state unitary enterprises that perform socially valuable functions. The draft executive order had been prepared by the Presidential Control Directorate, partly on the basis of the audit of the Russian Post, which revealed that purchases there had been of low efficiency and at prices above the optimum level.