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By Eurasianet A six-month trial in Uzbekistan over the deaths of at least 68 children linked to contaminated cough syrup imported from India has ended with several of the accused receiving lengthy sentences. A Tashkent court on February 26 found 23 people guilty of a range of crimes, from bribery and malpractice to abuse of power, tax evasion and the production and sale of substandard medicines. The stiffest sentence, 20 years in prison, was handed down to Raghvendra Pratar Singh, the head of Quramax Medikal, the company that imported the drugs produced by India’s Marion Biotech. During the tr…