The court placed the defendant in the “Kitchens in the District” case under house arrest

“The Moscow City Court has upheld without changes the ruling of the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow, which imposed a preventive measure in the form of house arrest until August 15, 2024 on the head of the quality department of Local Kitchen LLC, Elena Alekseevna Mashkova,” reads a message on the Telegram channel “Courts of general jurisdiction of the city of Moscow.”

• On June 15, the first reports of poisoning and suspected botulism began to appear on Telegram channels. All the victims ordered food “through delivery services.”
• On June 18, the first arrests began in the case of a massive outbreak of botulism in Moscow, and Rospotrebnadzor announced that it had identified the producers of salads poisoned by botulism.
• According to investigators, the defendants, “through prior conspiracy, in violation of safety requirements,” produced at least 2.3 thousand portions of Lobio, which they packed in individual vacuum packages and sold through the Samokat service to an “unlimited circle of people.”
• On June 28, the Lublinsky Court of Moscow suspended the work of the Local Kitchen for 90 days.

According to Rospotrebnadzor, the country experienced the largest outbreak of botulism since 1999 in June. According to the head of the department, Anna Popova, the reason was precisely the activities of Local Kitchen. She added that the situation could result in a loss of business for the company.