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CAFIA cooperates with the National Antidrug Central Office

06/10/2010
 
On Wednesday 9 June Martin Klanica, authorized to deputize the CAFIA Director General, and Jakub Frydrych, Director of the National Antidrug Central Office of Criminal Police and Investigation Service of the Police of the Czech Republic, signed together an agreement about mutual cooperation when solving cases of food supplements containing substances with anabolic or other hormonal effect.
Since the beginning of this year a new Penal Code has been in force which brought a whole range of changes into criminal law. Newly, posession, production, import, offering and sale of substances with anabolic or other hormonal impacts for different than a medical purpose belong to delicts. Government regulation then stipulates to which substances and in what amount the delict applies. In this way the new Penal Code offered a new tool for persecution of illegal trafficking of substances with anabolic or hormonal impact.
CAFIA encounters these substances especially in the form of admixture of anabolic steroids in food supplements for sportsmen. In the past these findings were solved only as an administrative offence distribution of a dangerous foodstuff. Food supplement was forbidden and a penalty was imposed on the enterpreneur in the framework of administrative procedure. However, according to present legislation detection of anabolic steroids in food supplements can lead to criminal prosecution. The person who distributes anabolic steroids illegitimately and on a bigger scale can be condemned to up to one year imprisonment. In case the offender causes a health injury by his action, the penal rate amounts to eight years, in case he causes death even twelve years.

The aim of the agreement was to determine procedures applicable at the reveal of similar cases, sequence of individual steps and the way of mutual information transmission. In the scope of the agreement both institutions also made clear common solution possibilities in case of distribution of dangerous food supplements with anabolic steroids. “In the light of the new legal form it is necessary to establish a close communication among the state organisations which are concerned with the use of substances with anabolic and hormonal impact”, stated in this connection Jakub Frydrych. “I understand this agreement as a step in a right direction; it is certainly a way how to make law enforcement at the problematic commodity of food supplements even more efficient,” added Martin Klanica.

Martina Šmídtová, CAFIA spokesperson
Michal Hammer, NACO spokesperson

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Author: Mgr. Martina Šmídtová - CAFIA spokesperson, phone : +420-542426633