Sales soared after Beijing doctors were offered bribes
By Wang Qingchu |
June 17, 2011, Friday
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A SALES representative for a pharmaceutical company is alleged to have paid bribes totalling 3.2 million yuan (US$494,438) to 16 officials in Beijing's tuberculosis control centers and medical institutions over four years - one of biggest cases involving doctors in the capital.
Wang Zunhe has been charged by Fangshan District People's Procuratorate and is awaiting trial on bribery charges, yesterday's Legal Evening News reported.
Of the 16 who took bribes, 13 were from Beijing's seven district or county TB control centers, with six of them center heads. The 13 were previously sentenced to jail terms ranging from one to more than 10 years.
Procurators caught Wang in May last year after receiving tip-offs and found a disk containing a list of bribe takers' names and the amounts he paid.
Sales of one medication soared after Wang started to offer kickbacks.
Wang sold 300,000 bottles of the medication from 2006 to 2010 and earned 5.22 million yuan, the report said.
Wang Jinling, head of the TB Control Center in Xuanwu District, is said to have told her lawyer: "I didn't know it was a crime to take kickbacks, because my teacher has been doing this since I was an intern."
The medication Wang Zunhe sold, which was manufactured by Gansu Tianshui Qihuang Pharmaceutical Industry Co Ltd, had been previously ruled an "inferior product" by drug authorities.
Wang Zunhe has been charged by Fangshan District People's Procuratorate and is awaiting trial on bribery charges, yesterday's Legal Evening News reported.
Of the 16 who took bribes, 13 were from Beijing's seven district or county TB control centers, with six of them center heads. The 13 were previously sentenced to jail terms ranging from one to more than 10 years.
Procurators caught Wang in May last year after receiving tip-offs and found a disk containing a list of bribe takers' names and the amounts he paid.
Sales of one medication soared after Wang started to offer kickbacks.
Wang sold 300,000 bottles of the medication from 2006 to 2010 and earned 5.22 million yuan, the report said.
Wang Jinling, head of the TB Control Center in Xuanwu District, is said to have told her lawyer: "I didn't know it was a crime to take kickbacks, because my teacher has been doing this since I was an intern."
The medication Wang Zunhe sold, which was manufactured by Gansu Tianshui Qihuang Pharmaceutical Industry Co Ltd, had been previously ruled an "inferior product" by drug authorities.
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