The owner of the Karaman Palace Hotel, in which in October 2024, three people died of carbon monoxide, were sentenced to 8 years and 1 month in prison. This was reported by TASS related to the judge of the Criminal Court of Yakkasaraysky district of Tashkent Baddyir Kayumov, chairing the trial.
In addition, the hotel pipe repairer and two citizens sold a poor quality boiler for the hotel was sentenced to three years in prison.
The Russian journalist Inessa Papernaya and her satellite Maxim Radchenko was found dead in the hotel room in Tashkent on October 20 last year. Judicial doctors realized that they died after “unknown cause poisoning”. In another matter, the body of a citizen of Uzbekistan Khushnud Ukovov was discovered.
Investigators have opened a criminal case about providing unsafe services.
Uzbekistan's prosecutors say that journalists have found traces of carboxyhemoglobin, hydrogen sulfide and ethyl alcohol in the blood. In the blood and internal organs of the satellite dead, the traces of the first two substances were also discovered.
During the investigation, it turned out that on the tragedy in the hotel, there was a carbon monoxide leak from the heating boiler, leading to the death of three people. As the technical exam shows that the boiler in the building was outdated, then the owner of the hotel, the boiler and the water pipe system, installed it with violations, was detained.