Fergana’s regional cassation court has overturned the non-custodial sentences given to the director and technologist of Garden Catering Trade LLC, jailing them for four years and three and a half years respectively for poisoning more than 105 children at city kindergartens in February 2026.
A cassation court has sentenced the director of Garden Catering Trade LLC to four years in prison and its food technologist to three and a half years over the mass poisoning of more than 100 children in Fergana region — overturning a September 2026 district court verdict. The case also highlights a 2024 Anti-Corruption Agency finding that procurement rules had been broken, which neither the regional governor nor the regional prosecutor acted upon.
