MOSCOW, June 19 The defendants in the case of mass poisoning of people produced more than 2 thousand portions of low-quality lobio, the Zamoskvoretsky court of the capital reported.
“According to the investigation, Lozin (general director of “Kitchen on the District” — ed.) and other defendants acted as part of a group of persons by prior conspiracy, violating safety requirements, prepared at least 2,336 servings of the “Lobio” dish, which were packaged in individual vacuum packaging and sold through the Samokat online store to an unlimited number of people,” the court said.
It was noted that as a result, more than 120 people who consumed this dish were hospitalized in hospitals in Moscow, the Moscow region and other regions of Russia with a diagnosis of botulism.
Previously, the court placed them under house arrest the head of the quality department of «LocalKitchen» Elena Mashkova and the de facto head of the bean producing company «Savon-K» Vladimir Shin, and the cook of the bean producing company «Savon-K» LLC Karim Normatov was ordered to be taken into custody.
According to investigators, more than 100 people in Moscow sought medical help with signs of food poisoning. In the Nizhny Novgorod region, 14 people were hospitalized, including a minor. In Tatarstan, more than 10 people are in hospital, eight of them are in intensive care. As the Investigative Committee said, they all ordered food products through delivery services and ate salad, manufactured by LokalKitchen LLC.
Deputy Mayor of the capital Anastasia Rakova said that 121 people who felt symptoms of poisoning sought medical help in Moscow, symptoms similar to botulism, 55 are in serious condition, 30 of them in intensive care. In addition to Moscow, residents of the Nizhny Novgorod region and Kazan were hospitalized with signs of botulism. The victims ordered lobio from «Local Kitchen» («Kitchen in the area») and salad with tuna, beans and apple from «Gastroport».