Intentionally sprinkled with harmful substances. The author escapes cheaply

The magistrates of the District Court ordered prison penalties with suspension for the five persons sent by prosecutors after knowing vegetables with harmful chemicals.

The convictions without recognition agreement targeted five defendants accused by prosecutors for qualified smuggling offenses, trafficking in products or toxic substances, the production, delivery or use of chemical fertilizers, as well as any products to protect unauthorized plants, for crops for marketing or non -elimination of substances.

‘Condemns the defendant (…) without criminal record, to the sentence of 2 years imprisonment for committing the crime of qualified smuggling (…) condemns the defendant (…), to the sentence of 1 year and 8 months imprisonment for committing the crime of products or toxic substances in continuous form. (15 material acts) condemns the defendant (…), without criminal record, to the punishment of 1 year and 4 months imprisonment for committing the crime not taking the measures of total elimination of the dangerous substances and preparations that have become waste. Finds that the offenses were committed in the competition (…) merges the main punishments applied in the present case, to apply the hardest sentence of 2 years imprisonment, to which is added a 1 year imprisonment (one third of the sum of the other two penalties, respectively 3 years imprisonment), the defendant to execute a sentence of 3 years. For 4 years’, it is shown in the court’s solution in the case of one of those sent to court.

In the case of the second defendant, the court set a sentence of two years and four months in prison, the third person judged in the same file received a year and ten months of imprisonment, for the fourth defendant the solution also provides for one year and ten months of imprisonment, and the fifth person in the case received a year.

The magistrates also ordered the costs and confiscation of some quantities of chemicals in the defendants. The decision of the Pogoanele Court is not final and can be appealed.

On February 2, 2024, the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Buzău Court announced the trial of five persons for committing the crimes of traffic or toxic substances, the production, delivery or use of unauthorized chemical fertilizers for crops intended for marketing and qualified smuggling, after being marketed and used to be a good chemical substances. Of the respective products were inhomologed.

Following the research, prosecutors revealed that people who used chemicals for vegetable crops were aware of the high degree of danger to which they subjected any customers, for their own consumption establishing separate crops.

‘Of the toxic substances that the mentioned persons offered for marketing (…) a plant protection substance called’ Canprin, located in plastic container with inscriptions in Turkish, product in Romania, a substance of planting with early baking effect of tomatoes and cucumbers sold as a ‘ethrel’ ‘Maysal 48 SL’, product inhomologed in Romania. The defendants were aware of the dangers they would have exposed to if they had consumed the vegetables they owned in the solariums, although they were to market these vegetables to the population, mentioning that ‘they would not eat tomatoes until the summer’. They were disinterested in the consequences that those vegetables could have produced to consumers, setting up separate crops, only for their own consumption, which they did not splash with substances, ‘prosecutors said.

Investigators asked the investigation a point of view from the Ministry of Health regarding the chemicals that the accused would have marketed or used in cucumbers and tomatoes, the result showing that the majority were non-homologous and harmful.