Since 1992 chronic renal failures have been detected in women that have absorbed pills containing chinese herbs extracts. The more fortunate of them underwent kidney transplant surgery, others survive thanks to hemodialysis, a third category either suffers from urinal cancer or either are deceased. Commercialized by Arkopharma (e.g. Health From The Sun) asiatitrat pills - which contained those extracts - were absorbed in the early 90's by 2,000 to 3,000 women in France and even more in Belgium where 1 million pills were sold. To date criminal proceedings against Max Rombi - Arkopharma's founder and ex-CEO - are ongoing since 1994. Max Rombi is pursued for homicides, injuries, frauds and misleading advertising. In October 2005 Max Rombi has been found guilty and sentenced to serve two years in jail and pay 20,000 euros penalty for "unintentional" homicides by Nice (France) correctional court. After fourteen years of procedures in a complete U-turn, on July the 5th of 2006, Max Rombi is acquitted of the charges of "unintentional" injuries by Toulouse (France) correctional court. Max Rombi has appealed both correctional courts sentences. Once more victims are insulted...

The figures shown below relate to known cases which means there are other women whom havng absorbed Arkopharma's asiatitrat pills and having lost their kidneys do not realize the cause of their renal failure. The purpose of this blog is to bring to public knowledge a problem that concerns us all and wherein an unscrupulous individual veterinary improvising himself as an expert in chinese medecine sold pills through the company he founded regardless of public health and safety standards...

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Arkopharma's ex-CEO, founder & current chairman of the supervisory board - Max Rombi - sentenced for unintentional homicides

Aix-en-provence (France) Appel Court has pronounced an attenuated confirmation of Nice (France)'s Correctional Tribunal's sentence of November the 17th 2005. Max Rombi - Arkopharma's founder and ex-CEO and current chairman of the supervisory board - has been sentenced to serve two years in jail instead of the three initially sentenced and to a maximum penalty of €45,000 for unintentional homicides.

Reminder of the facts

In November 2000, short after Regine Crispino's decease at 40years old following a urinal cancer, Nice (France)'s tribunal opens a case. One year later another young woman, Valerie Jouffret, dies aged 34 of a similar pathology. Both victims did follow in the early 90's a diet involving asiatitrats arkocapsules comercialized by Arkopharma (aka Health From The Sun ) without any official market licence. Asiatitrats pills were announced by Arkopharma as having "weight-loss" properties. However none of the chinese herbs involved don't seem to be used in traditional chinese medecine in preparations for "weight loss" purposes. Furthermore one of the herbs - aristolochia fang ji - is known to be a carcerigen agent. Arkopharma imported circ. 750kg of aristolochia fang ji for its asiatitrats capsules. In France around 2,000 women were exposed and even more in Belgium where 1.5 millio pills were sold.
Reflexion

Mr Rombi is well known of french courts and has been repeatedly condemned for the same charges. Charges in-crescendo considering the homicides... In despite of that he's still chairman of the supervisory board and majority shareholder of Arkopharma (aka Health From The Sun) a company that still commercializing bogus products such as NTB cigarettes.

  • Sept. the 17th 1990 - Fined for FF15,000 for selling pharmaceutical specialities without official market licence and illicite advertisement in favour of those products.
  • Sept. the 5th 1995 - Fined for FF15,000 for commercialisation of a medecine without official market licence.
  • Dec. the 7th 1995 - Fined for FF130,000 including FF50,000 for fraud, misleading advertisement, commercialization of pharmaceutical specialities without official market licence, selling secret remedies and infractions to the rules in relation with medecine advertisement.
  • 1998 - Sentenced for fraud and misleading advertisement. Mr Rombi avait commercialized another diet product - Bio 2000 - without any legal notices.
  • July the 5th 2006 - Sentenced for fraud and misleading advertisement for the asiatitrats (sentence appealed)
  • November the 13th 2006 - Sentenced for "unintentional" homicides.

posted by ML at 6:23 AM 1 comments

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mr Rombi seems quite resourceful and well experienced when it comes to justice matters. Besides Arkopharma - Health From The Sun - this guy is involved in other companies such as Arkochim, Romart editions, Alpen editions, Europhyto etc. and he's still making money out of his poisons. €45000 fine and 2 years jail sentence? So much for the deceased victims and the surviving families who are witnessing such disgrace.

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