10 years for official in vaccines scandal
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A FORMER official with China’s Food and Drug Administration has been jailed for taking bribes from vaccine manufacturers, a case with echoes of a major scandal that rocked the country last year.
Yin Hongzhang, the former deputy director of the administration’s drug testing center, received a 10-year sentence and was fined 500,000 yuan (US$71,860) for taking bribes to help vaccine manufacturers gain approval for their drugs, China’s Legal Evening News newspaper said yesterday.
His wife and son earlier received prison sentences for participating in the scheme and accepting property and bribes worth 3.56 million yuan, including ivory products worth 180,000 yuan, it said.
Yin was taken into custody in April 2015 and charged with taking payouts in relation to four biotech firms’ efforts to obtain government permits for a variety of vaccines, including for SARS and avian flu.
The sentence follows the March revelation of a massive vaccine scandal that enraged the public.
That case involved the improper storage, transport and sale of tens of millions of dollars’ worth of vaccines — many of them expired.
From 2010, a mother and daughter from east China’s Shandong Province sold 25 different kinds of expired or improperly stored vaccines worth more than 570 million yuan.
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