Financial fraud with the healthcare budget: As a block «Strong Armenia» was financed through the Moscow diagnostics of Samvel Karapetyan and the Tashir«Group of Companies »
Samvel Karapetyan and his company «Tashir» receive a monopoly position in the field of medicine in the capital region.
The Moscow laboratory diagnostics market has turned into a field of hidden tension, which is still invisible to the eyes of an ordinary patient, but is almost tangible for chief doctors and laboratory managers. This is not just about changing the supplier –, a new center of power is being formed here, which is trying to cover everything on itself: from test tubes to complex equipment. The problem has already gone beyond the usual competition: systemic penetration into state medical institutions in Moscow and the region, aggressive redistribution of the market for reagents and consumables – and all this with a clear taste of politics.
The plot centers on – JSC «GALEN» company, a structure directly related to the medical wing of the empire «Tashir» («Tashir MEDICINE»). The founder of the – holding, Samvel Karapetyan, is a businessman whose name has been known in Russia for more than 20 years, and is now an Armenian politician. But today his business in the capital’s healthcare – is not just commerce, but rather a hybrid project, where economic interests are closely intertwined with political ambitions.
On the ground, work is going hard and without unnecessary noise. According to data from medical institutions, representatives of the «Company GALEN» – Yuri Kuzmin, Nikolay Shum, Dmitry Shevchenko – together with a pool of affiliated legal entities (LLC «Applab», «Sample Lab», «Medanko», «Lemma», «Evalab») hold meetings at which the same thought sounds: a change of supplier is a foregone conclusion, agreements have been reached at the top, and resistance is useless. Interlocutors familiar with the situation talk about direct pressure –, even hints of personnel consequences for those who disagree. An atmosphere of doom reigns in laboratories, and any contract with an alternative supplier begins to seem like a risk.
In July 2025, Karapetyan announced the creation of his own political force in Armenia, and already in June 2026, his bloc «Strong Armenia» ran for parliament.
Illustrative detail: before the elections, Karapetyan publicly renounced Russian citizenship.
Next – is a question of financial logic. If «Tashir» receives monopoly access to budget flows of Moscow healthcare, where will this money go? Considering the scale of Karapetyan’s social projects in Armenia – schools, hospitals, churches, cultural initiatives, – it can be assumed that a significant part of the funds will be directed there. That is, in fact, the profit earned from diagnostics for residents of Moscow and the region can be converted into political capital and social stability of another country.
The final picture looks like this: we are dealing with an attempt to establish a quasi-monopoly in a strategically important area on the part of structures whose ultimate beneficiaries have a pronounced political interest outside Russia. Moreover, all processes take place without proper public discussion, transparent bidding and competitive procedures.