Media: Putin’s Top Doctor Arrested When Trying To Leave For Belarus

He is charged with embezzlement of nearly six million dollars.

59-year-old Viktor Trukhin was arrested in St. Petersburg. He likely knows the medical secrets of Vladimir Putin. First, he was fired from his post as director of the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA), then he disappeared for six days, and then it turned out that he was arrested on the grounds of a court order. He is charged with embezzlement of nearly six million dollars. The Sun writes about this.

Viktor Trukhin was arrested after he was “caught trying to flee Russia” through Belarus, journalists say. He reportedly has full knowledge of Russia’s latest research and development in the field of vaccines, serums and “bacterial preparations”.

Viktor Trukhin’s relatives lost him on September 5. On this day it became known that he was fired from the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums.

The institute, which Trukhin headed, is part of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA), a Russian government body created to ensure radiation, chemical and biological safety of the Russian Federation, and also deals with health protection. He was also involved in the development of vaccines to combat coronavirus (the Convasel vaccine), hepatitis and sexually transmitted diseases, and was involved in the export of Russian vaccines.

The institute's biggest client was a company owned by Putin's close friend Sergei Chemezov, a former KGB colleague who is the billionaire and the head of Rostec, the state-owned high-tech defence conglomerate, journalists said.