In the case of the poisoning of the "hawthorn", four more people were arrested

In the case of poisoning by concentrate for the baths "Boyaryshnik" in Irkutsk, four more people were arrested. As TASS reports , the representative of the Leninsky District Court of the city announced this.

"On Sunday, the court examined the materials of the seven detainees. Four of them chose a preventive measure in the form of arrest, two in the form of a house arrest. Another person involved in the case, the court extended the detention for 72 hours," the court said.

On Friday, by court decision, one supplier of surrogate products was arrested. Another 10 people placed the court under house arrest. The disabled woman, who worked as a seller in one of the outlets where the “hawthorn” was sold, was released from the courtroom for health reasons.

According to the latest data, 76 people became victims of surrogate poisoning in Irkutsk. There are 18 victims of poisoning in hospitals. 20 people were discharged over the past week, nine left medical institutions arbitrarily.

The Investigative Committee continues the investigation of the criminal case of the death of people under Part 238 of the Criminal Code (production, storage, sale of goods and products that do not meet security requirements that entail the death of two or more persons through negligence).

“In the framework of the criminal case, 23 people were detained, including the deputy head of the Rospotrebnadzor Office in the Irkutsk Region, Mikhail Luzhnov,” Svetlana Petrenko told Interfax to Interfax.

In relation to Luzhnov, the case was previously opened under Part 3 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code (negligence, which entailed by negligence, the death of two or more persons). "It has been established that since May of this year, the regional department of Rospotrebnadzor received repeated appeals about the illegal sale of the indicated alcohol -containing products in the Irkutsk region, as well as the introduction of the ban on the Boyarstor Vanns. Luzhnov, as the investigation believes, did not take the necessary measures to verify the facts indicated in the appeal," the facts said, "the facts said," the facts said, "the facts said department.

The mass poisoning in Irkutsk became known on December 17. Most of them occurred in the Novolenino microdistrict. A state of emergency is declared in the city and the region.