This was reported to TASS by Elena Markovskaya, a representative of the Moscow Interregional Investigation Department for Transport (MMSUT) of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

“The director of the restaurant car of the Murmansk-Adler passenger train, the cook and the waiter were detained.

They are suspected of committing crimes under paragraph "a" of Part 2 of Art.

238 of the Criminal Code of Russia (provision of services that do not meet the health safety requirements of consumers) and Part 1 of Art.

236 of the Criminal Code of Russia (violation of sanitary and epidemiological rules, which inadvertently resulted in mass poisoning of people), ”she said.

Earlier it was reported that the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova took under personal control the situation with the hospitalization of children with signs of poisoning from the Murmansk-Adler train.

On August 7, it became known that 20 children with suspected intestinal infection were taken to hospitals in the Kuban.

They were all taken off the Murmansk-Adler train.

Later, the number of children hospitalized increased.

Investigators opened a criminal case on the fact of food poisoning of children.