The Sovetsky District Court of Samara sentenced a policeman and two entrepreneurs in the case of mass poisoning with the alcoholic drink “Mr. Cider,” the regional prosecutor’s office reported.
All three were found guilty of attempted theft of methyl alcohol on a large scale (part 3 of article 30 of the Criminal Code, paragraph “c” of part 3 of article 158 of the Criminal Code). Policeman Ivan Grebenkin was sentenced to three and a half years in a general regime colony. Alexey Egorov — three years and three months in a general regime colony, and his son Dmitry Egorov — three and a half years in a maximum security colony.
“In May 2023, a police officer guarding the warehouse of the Federal Institution “Center for Economic and Service Support of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Samara Region”, together with his friends, organized the theft of six thousand liters of alcohol,” the report says prosecutor's office.
The prosecution notes that during the days of duty, the policeman allowed a truck into the warehouse several times, after which the Egorovs pumped methyl alcohol worth 102 thousand rubles into containers, and then sold the liquid, thinking that it was ethyl alcohol.
As a result of poisoning with the drink «Mr. Cider», according to the prosecutor's office, more than 40 people died. The first cases of poisoning in the Ulyanovsk region became known on June 5 last year. Residents of the Samara, Nizhny Novgorod and Penza regions, Udmurtia and Chuvashia were also affected.
In the case of the death of residents of the Volga region, the court in Ulyanovsk arrested Samara businessman Anar Guseinov. The founder of the Andi company, which supplied alcohol, is accused of providing services that do not meet safety requirements (Part 3 of Article 238 of the Criminal Code).