Even up to eight years in prison threatens ten people suspected of selling counterfeit anabolic steroids and healing agents. Everyone has already heard the allegations, but only one person “partly admitted to the alleged deeds.”
Anna Marszałek, spokeswoman for the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Poznań, announced on Wednesday about the detention of ten people in connection with the participation in an organized criminal group, which operated from January to December 2024 in Poznań and other towns in Poland.
Investigative findings show that the suspects dealt with the production of medicinal products, including a stimulating effect of the endocrine system, as well as anabolic agents in the form of testosterone and growth hormone, defined as substances prohibited by the international convention on combating doping in sport. The prosecutor emphasized that these suspects offered sales through messengers and social networks. – During the group's activities, its members broadcast over 1,500 courier parcels and received over 600 shipments, containing illegal substances, achieving a financial benefit in the amount exceeding three million 700 thousand zlotys – pointed out a spokeswoman for the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Poznań.
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Cash and medicines were secured
Suspects – at the behest of the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Poznań – an independent department for cybercrime and computerization – detained by officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime of the Management Board in Katowice (investigating the investigation), in cooperation with the Central Office of Cybercriminality of the Management Board in Poznań.
– During the searches, officers found cash in the amount of over PLN 100,000 and secured significant amounts of pharmaceuticals, including (…) over two thousand tablets and over 14,000 vials, containers and ampoules with the content of such agents, the value of which was determined at at least a million zlotys. Labels for determining the products produced by suspicious products were also secured, and the property belonging to suspects in the form of passenger cars and motorcycle was occupied – the prosecutor pointed out.
They heard allegations, but only one of the detainees “partly brought”
The marshal informed on Wednesday that at the headquarters of the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Poznań, the suspects heard allegations, including participation or management of an organized criminal group and bringing danger to the life or health of many people by illegally placing pharmaceuticals on the market. – One of the suspects partly confessed to committing the accused of the crime and submitted to the explanation. The others did not admit to committing the offenses they were accused of – the prosecutor pointed out. In relation to five suspects, at the request of the prosecutor, the Poznań Old Town District Court applied temporary arrests for a period of three months. In the face of other suspects, libertarian measures are used in the form of police supervision, a ban on contacts with other suspects, a ban on leaving the country, as well as property guarantees. The acts accused of suspects are punishable by up to eight years in prison. Investigators emphasize that the matter is of a developmental nature.
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