The Provincial Court of Zamora convicted three years in prison to a man for sell gastric pills as a medicine to cause abortions through the WhatsApp application and the clients it has contacted through the internet. The defendant, with initials LAJ, created together with a second person, sentenced to the same sentence in a previous trial, a network to illegally sell that drug that caused the death of the fetus as a side effect, according to the proven facts admitted on Tuesday by the accused.
The agreement between the parties reduced the prison sentence originally requested by the prosecutor for acts classified as public health offenses by one year less.
Drug sales network for duodenal ulcer As an abortion 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 on their return to their country.
At that time the convicts executed about a hundred sales of the drug obtaining an economic profit, since they sold each pill for fifteen euros, when in pharmacies 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 inappropriate purpose began after a pregnant woman went to the Virgen de la Concha hospital where she purchased the product and felt side effects.
The woman confessed that she bought the pills on the internet and from the hospital they communicated it to the Prosecutor’s Office, which initiated an investigation that led police to dismantle the illegal business and arrest the two convicted of the acts.
Sources from the Prosecutor’s Office explained that most of the network’s customers were women from South American countries residing in Spain to which the pills were sent by courier after contacting the telephone numbers of the two convicts.
In addition to the prison sentence, the man was fined 1,080 euros, a fine of twelve months at a rate of three euros per day, a penalty similar to that imposed in January, also according to the other member of the network.
In the trial that reached the sentence on Tuesday, the defendant and his lawyer appeared by videoconference, a system through which he admitted the facts and his lawyer asked not to be forced to go to prison.