By Steve Anderson, The Independent – July 11, 2013
Public Security Ministry announcement says GSK executives paid off healthcare staff to persuade them to prescribe drugs
Executives at the pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline have been accused of bribing doctors in China, in a long-running campaign to persuade them to prescribe drugs to patients.
Officials from China’s Public Security Ministry in an announcement alleged that the employees paid “large bribes,” laundered through travel agencies, to doctors, hospitals and others to “”open new sales channels and increase drug revenues”.
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