Losses in Hexi Pharma case amount to RON 70 million

State losses in Hexi Pharma case amount to RON 70 mln

Newsroom 14/07/2016 | 13:25

The state losses in the Hexi Pharma case currently amount to RON 70 million, after 280 hospitals brought a civil action in the criminal proceedings, Prosecutor General Augustin Lazar announced on Thursday at the headquarters of the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM).

“In this case the criminal investigation has moved forward and we are able to say that there are about 280 parties, hospitals that brought a civil action in the criminal proceedings. The losses (…) amount to around RON 70 million, at present,” Lazar said.

According to the Prosecutor General, a first section in the Hexi Pharma case will receive a solution in the fall. “We will see how a section of this case will be delimited, which can receive a solution within a reasonable period. In the fall, a first section of this case [will receive a solution],” Lazar said.

Disinfectants maker Hexi Pharma sold disinfectants to numerous public hospitals in Romania. According to the NGO Initiativa Romania, the company concluded more than 9,000 contracts with Romanian hospitals, 90 percent of them attributed without a public tender.

In the wake of the deadly Colectiv club fire, journalists investigated the background and causes of the numerous deaths by victims who had died of infections with very aggressive nosocomial bacteria and found that many disinfectants sold by Hexi Pharma had been diluted.