Design drugs sold in stores such as herbs or salt. After thirteen years fell – we
7. Apr 2025 at 15:00
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The stores were in four cities.
Nitra. After a long thirteen years fell first judgment In the case of design drugs. They were sold in Nitra, Šali, Banská Bystrica and Žilina.
The stores were called Euphoriashopy (formerly Crazyshopy), there was also a hypnotic in Nitra. The goods were written that it is not intended for consumption. Only persons from eighteen could be bought officially.
Products imported from Poland have been labeled as a bath salt, fragrance herbs, powder against moles or air freshener to the toilet. If the buyer wanted, the salesmen advised him on how to take the goods – whether the snuff, smoke or leach. In the case they testified as witnesses.
For controllers or suspicious customers, salesmen had clean goods at hand, ie without addictive chemicals. However, they did not reveal the police agent, he bought repeatedly in the Nitra trade.
The penalty was extraordinarily reduced
Two men are accused of drug business – Marek A. (43) from Martin and Adrian Romualdo B. (46) from Poland. In 2012 they were detained in Nitra, so they also judge them.
The District Court imposed a term of imprisonment of 4.5 years on Tuesday. Suffering computers and thousands of euros are to be forfeited to the state.
Both men insist on their innocence. Among other things, they claim that they were only ordinary employees.
The prosecutor proposed a ten -year imprisonment for both. He has not yet said whether he appeals to the judgment. The defendants, or their advocates, have already reported the appeal.
In the amount of the sentence, the judge also took into account the fact that the trial lasted extremely long. In the meantime, it has changed Criminal Code. « It is milder for you, » she told the defendants before the verdict.
They started three times again
The police monitored the situation in stores for a long time. The goods contained components that were not on the list of prohibited narcotic and psychotropic substances at that time. They often differ only by minor finishing the molecule. That’s why they were called pseudodrogs.
Operations were closed in the summer of 2012, after police intervention. The indictment was brought to court in June 2014. The trial had to be started three times from the beginning.
For the first time he was thwarted by the defender Patrik Pálffy, who was cut off from the list of lawyers, but he concealed it. More than fifty hearing was unnecessarily held.
Not even a second attempt came out. After a few hearings, the session became seriously ill. The defendants disagree with the exchanging to continue.
So they read the indictment in the spring of 2022 for the third time.
The prosecutor talked about the chip
According to the prosecutor’s office, the defendants were delivering goods to shops from December 2011 to June 2012. It was imported from Poland, stored in a rented apartment in Martin.
In the final speech, the prosecutor also mentioned several specific customers who had health problems.
For example, Matej could not sleep, had hallucinations, had to be hospitalized. His brother Robert had to go for treatment. « It is a pity that his testimony was not heard by the defendants, » the prosecutor said.
He talked about the chip that the couple tried to legalize the sale of psychotropic substances. The products were not officially intended for consumption, but in fact they also contained, for example, prohibited MDPV and methylon.
Sellers perceived the defendants as owners of the company. Officially he was the manager of the White Horse – Homeless.
A fifteen -year -old was sent by the judge to custody. He threatened his classmates Read
Has also proposed financial penalties
The prosecutor also proposed high punishments « due to the uncritical attitude of the defendants and the fact that the goods were also bought by younger persons who had serious problems ».
In addition to prison for ten years in a institute with a minimum degree of guarding, he also proposed a fine of at least EUR 25,000 plus the penalties of the forfeiture (computers and money).
Both defendants insist on their innocence. Defender Marek A. in the final speech claimed that his client had no suspicion of the sale of psychotropic substances. « If he had, he will terminate his employment. »
He also argued that customers were from the age of 18 and the substances containing goods were not banned. The real owners of the company should be sitting on the criminal bench.
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The advocate said that the goods contained only trace amounts of psychoactive substances. According to him, the prosecutor did not deal with the new wording of the Criminal Code: « The act cannot be a criminal offense if the amount found does not correspond to one gram of the active substance. »
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