Pharmaceutical Industry's Criminal Fraud Settlements

Between 1991-2010, there were 165 criminal and/or civil settlements by major pharmaceutical companies comprising of $19.8 billion in penalties. Four of the world's largest drug companies--GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and Schering-Plough--accounted for 53% ($10.5 billion) of penalties during these two decades.
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Vietnam Fines Schering-Plough for Kickbacks paid to doctors for promoting hepatitis drugs

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung ordered the Ministry of Health to impose penalties on the drugmaker and several Ho Chi Minh City docs who took kickbacks of up to $26,300 a month in exchange for promoting two drugs that treat viral hepatitis, The Saigon GP Daily reports.
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Labour MP backs drug in report financed by its manufacturer

Here is another example of the workings of drug companies.

In the Sunday Telegraph of August 13, 2006, is the following report:

Labour MP backs drug in report financed by its manufacturer

which is headed

Labour MP backs drug in report financed by its manufacturer
Ben Leapman, Home Affairs Correspondent

(Filed: 13/08/2006)

Extract:

"A Labour MP has been criticised for promoting a prescription-only medicine in a pamphlet funded by the drug's manufacturer.

Medical ethics campaigners questioned the £5,000 deal involving John Mann, the MP for Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire, and the pharmaceuticals giant Schering-Plough.

They also condemned the Fabian Society, the Labour-affiliated think-tank which published the pamphlet and secured the sponsorship."