In the Urals, a defendant in a drug smuggling case who ordered an antidepressant from Poland was declared insane

A psychiatric examination declared Daria Belyaeva, a resident of Yekaterinburg, insane, against whom a criminal case had previously been opened for purchasing antidepressants from Poland. about this with reference to her lawyer Irina Ruchko. writes MBKh Media

“Daria could not understand the nature of her actions, that is, she is insane and needs the use of compulsory medical measures with the appointment of outpatient treatment,” the lawyer reported the experts’ conclusions.

As Ruchko said, the investigator canceled the decision to bring Belyaeva as a defendant, where she was “charged with pure ephedrone.” “According to the investigator, the prosecutor’s office will not allow them to drop this case here and now,” says the lawyer. Therefore, according to her, the prosecution will take the case to court and ask that the girl be prescribed outpatient treatment.

A criminal case for drug smuggling on a large scale (part 3 of Article 229.1 of the Criminal Code) was opened against Belyaeva by the deputy head of Koltsovskaya customs. Daria Belyaeva has schizotypal personality disorder. She ordered an antidepressant via the Internet and on April 8 came to the post office to pick up the package. from her . There, customs officers met the girl and seized a pack of Elontril containing 30 tablets

A specialist from the expert forensic service of the customs department indicated in his conclusion that bupropion is not contained either in the list of narcotic drugs or in the lists of potent and toxic substances. However, he wrote that bupropion “may be regarded as the product of the formal replacement of a hydrogen atom […] of the ephedrone ring by a chlorine atom,” that is, a derivative of ephedrone.

Ephedrone is included in the list of narcotic drugs prohibited in Russia. Based on this conclusion, Belyaeva was accused of smuggling 10.69 grams of banned ephedrone.