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Criminal accountability set for Latvians selling ''legal narcotics''

BC, Riga, 03.04.2014.Print version
In reaction to condemnation from the public for delaying this matter too long, Latvian Saeima made an emergency vote today to introduce criminal accountability for persons selling the so-called ''legal narcotics'', informs LETA.

According to the amendments to the Criminal Law, persons can be held accountable if the products they are selling include substances that have been put on the list of temporarily-banned substances.

 

The amendments were submitted to parliament by the Saeima Legal Affairs Committee, and were passed in the first and final reading today.

 

''The new law will allow law-enforcement institutions to react and hold accountable persons who are selling products containing substances which are on the list of temporarily-banned substances, but have yet to be included on the permanent list of banned substances,'' Saeima Legal Affairs Committee member Andrejs Judins (Unity) told LETA.

 

With the new amendments, persons who have been found guilty of selling these substances can receive a maximum prison sentence of two years.






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