Processes - Process changed verdicts for ineffective cancer medication:
After the conviction of two defendants for selling an ineffective cancer remedy to a series of seriously ill patients, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe slightly amended the verdicts. Due to the appeals of the accused, the judges in Karlsruhe found that the charges in two cases had expired. However, in numerous other cases, the verdicts remain unchanged.
The Landgericht Ingolstadt had sentenced a healing practitioner and the supplier of the supposed wonder drug to prison sentences in June 2023. The woman received a three-year prison term, and the man was sentenced to a total of six years and nine months in prison. In the man's case, there were also legal errors regarding the extradition of the accused from Cyprus, as the BGH determined.
In his case, a court must now determine the total sentence again. However, the BGH upheld the prison sentence for the convicted woman.
Victims of the scam involving the unauthorized medication were patients who had cancer or other serious illnesses. Some of the affected individuals had already passed away before the conviction of the accused. The proceedings in Ingolstadt lasted for two years, requiring 64 court days. It was the longest trial in the history of the Ingolstadt Court at that time.
- The amended judgments by the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe maintained the conviction of the cancer remedy sellers, despite the expiry of charges in two cases, in other numerous instances.
- The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe identified a right error regarding the extradition process in the man's case, who was sentenced to prison by the Landgericht Ingolstadt for selling an ineffective cancer remedy.
- Ms. from Ingolstadt was sentenced to three years in prison for her role in selling the ineffective cancer medicines, while her accomplice, from another region, was given a combined sentence of six years and nine months.
- The federal court in Karlsruhe, known as the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), is responsible for providing decisions on appeals related to criminality in Baden-Württemberg and other regions of Germany.
- Patients with cancer or serious illnesses were among the victims who fell prey to the illegal sale of the unauthorized cancer medication, with some unfortunate individuals losing their lives before the trial's conclusion in Ingolstadt.
- With around 64 court days spread over two years, the controversial trial of the cancer medication sellers in Ingolstadt marked the longest court process in the history of the city's Landgericht at that particular time.
