British drugmaker under investigation by Chinese authorities for alleged bribery and price fixing
The British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline used travel agencies and consultancies as vehicles to bribe officials and doctors and illegally boosted the sales prices of its drugs sold in China, police said on Monday.
Since 2007 the company had transferred as much as 3bn yuan (£323m) to more than 700 travel agencies and companies, Gao Feng, a police official in charge of the investigation into the company, told a news conference.
The investigation had found GlaxoSmithKline was chiefly responsible for the bribes, including instances of sexual bribery, Gao said. Four senior Chinese executives have been detained.
Police said they had taken no action against any British nationals, adding that no information had been received from GSK's UK headquarters.
GSK, which says it was only told of the grounds of the investigation in early July, has said it found no evidence of bribery or corruption in China, adding it would co-operate with the authorities.
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| GlaxoSmithKline research centre in Shanghai. The company is under investigation over alleged briberyThe ministry of public security said on Thursday that GSK executives in China had confessed to bribery and tax violations during one of a string of investigations into foreign firms in the world's second-biggest economy. |
The ministry said the case against Britain's biggest drug maker involved a large number of staff and a huge sum of money over an extended period of time, with bribes offered to Chinese government officials, medical associations, hospitals and doctors to boost sales and prices.
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