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Drug administrator gets 11 years in jail

AN official with the State Food and Drug Administration has been sentenced to 11 years for taking 1.3 million yuan (US$195,589) in bribes to help drug companies get product licenses.

Chen Haifeng, 40, former chief of the administration's Center for Drug Evaluation, was accused of taking bribes from several companies to bypass necessary checks and give them product licenses during his tenure from 2004 to 2007, Beijing Times reported today.

The court also confiscated 200,000 yuan of Chen's personal property.

Chen appealed against his sentence, arguing the money he received from a Zhejiang company was for his research work through the testing of three drugs.

Chen accepted 500,000 yuan from the company in 2005 to get its three injection drugs approved without undergoing essential tests, which usually take one to three years.



 

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