At its meeting on July 3, the appellate instance of the Tashkent city criminal court upheld the verdict of the first instance in the case of the Doc-1 Max syrup from the Indian Marion Biotech. The complaints of 7 defendants were not satisfied.
According to the publication, 2.5 billion soums paid by Munira Karieva, the mother of the convicted former director of the Agency for the Development of the Pharmaceutical Industry Sardor Kariev, will be equally distributed between representatives of the dead and injured children.
On February 26, the court sentenced Sardor Kariev to 18 years in prison, his assistants to 16 years, and the former director of the drug importing company Quramax, an Indian citizen, to 20 years in prison.
The court ordered the defendants to pay 75.6 billion soums, 6 million USD, in moral damages to the families of 68 dead and 16 injured children who were poisoned by the drugs Doc-1 Max and Ambronol. In addition, the court decided to recover in favor of the state the amount of the Quramax bribe given to officials.
The Tashkent city criminal court began considering a criminal case related to the death of at least 68 children from taking Marion Biotech drugs in Uzbekistan, including Doc-1 Max syrup, since August 2023. There were 23 people on trial (18 men and 5 women).
