Zamora Provincial Court has sentenced three years in prison to a man sell stomach pills as a medication to cause abortions via the WhatsApp application and customers he has contacted via the Internet. The defendant, with the initials LAJ, along with a second person who had been sentenced to the same sentence in a previous trial, had created a network to illegally sell that drug that caused the death of the fetus as a secondary effect, according to the proven facts acknowledged by the suspect on Tuesday.
The agreement between the parties has reduced the sentence initially requested by the public prosecutor for offenses against public health.
The drug sales network for úlcera duodenal As an abortifacient product, it operated between September 2015 and December 2016, after the two convicts took over this illegal business after receiving it from a Colombian citizen in Spain who left it behind on their return to their country.
During that time the convicts executed about a hundred sales of the drug making an economic profit, as they sold each pill for fifteen euros, while in the pharmacy they have a price of 25 cents per unit.
The investigation that made it possible to dismantle the illegal sale of this drug for an inadequate purpose began after a pregnant woman went to Virgen de la Concha hospital to purchase the product and felt side effects.
The woman admitted that she had bought the pills over the internet and reported it from the hospital center to the Public led the police to dismantle the illegal trade and arrest the two convicts of the facts.
Public prosecution sources have explained that most of the network’s customers were women from South American countries living in Spain to which the pills were sent by courier after contacting the telephone numbers of the two convicts.
In addition to jail time, the man has been fined 1,080 eurosa twelve-month fine of three euros per day, a penalty similar to that in January, also in accordance with the other member of the network.
In the trial that reached the verdict on Tuesday, the suspect and his lawyer appeared via video conference, a system through which he acknowledged the facts and asked his lawyer not to go to jail.