MOSCOW, 15 Sep. The defendant in the criminal case on the death of a woman and a girl as a result of poisoning in the southeast of Moscow, Anton Kotov was charged and faces up to 10 years in prison, the press service of the court told RIA Novosti. 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Provision of services that do not meet safety requirements, resulting in the death of two or more persons by negligence) «, — said the agency's interlocutor.
A video with a suspect in the case of watermelon poisoning was published. The sanction of this article provides for a sentence of imprisonment for up to 10 years. Kotov is a 39-year-old employee of the Regional Disinfection Center, which carried out insect treatment at the store where the watermelon was purchased. It was the violations of the disinsection rules, according to the investigators, that caused what happened. According to the Moscow head office of the RF IC, the family bought a watermelon in the Magnit store on Sovkhoznaya Street. The retail chain later announced that it was conducting an internal investigation and, before finding out the reasons for the incident, was withdrawing from the sale the entire batch of watermelons that were presented in the store. The Moscow Health Department noted that the exact cause of death would be established after receiving the results of a forensic medical examination. disinfection center «Dmitry Kutyev said earlier that Kotov acted according to the instructions and» did not violate anything at all. » According to Kutiev, it is impossible to get poisoned with the insect repellent «Tsigatrin» in the dosage that was used in «Magnet».
Neighbors told about the family poisoned by watermelon
