Hexi Pharma, charged in the diluted disinfectants file

Hexi Pharma has been charged in the diluted disinfectants file by the Prosecutor’s Office, judiciary sources told local media on Friday. For now, there is no information available about the official charges against the company.

Police officers are also conducting searches in this file, probing into the Hexi Pharma’s computers and phones. More precisely, the phones and computers of the general manager Flori Dinu and of the plant’s chemist are checked.

The searches come few days after the company’s general manager has been heard as a witness in this case. The Hexi Pharma owner Dan Condrea together with other 14 employees of the factory were also heard on Tuesday at the Bucharest Police center.

Investigators are probing into the allegations in the file pointing “to foiling the diseases control” and to products’ forgery.

Following information on the diluted disinfectants allegedly used in the Romanian hospitals, the Health minister Patriciu Achimş-Cadariu resigned from office.

Shortly after his resignation, the Government officially announced that the tests run on the Hexi Pharma products were found inappropriate. Soon after the official notice, Hexi Pharma announced in a press release that all procedures to close down the factory and the company had been initiated.

The company had filed for insolvency in court on May 10. According to information showing up in the insolvency request, Hexi Pharma had debts mounting to almost RON 24 M (more precisely, RON 23, 462, 229). The first hearing is due on May 17 at the Bucharest Tribunal.