Siemens bribes thousands of hospitals exposed, suspected of signing false contracts to pay bribes

a dispute between siemens medical device giant Siemens Medical and Chinese dealersSiemens' healthcare division underperformed as a result of the implementation of the U.Sexcise tax on medical devices, weak economic conditions in Europe and slowing growth in the Chinese marketAccording to Siemens China's website, the medical equipment provided by the company's medical department includes laboratory diagnostics, hearing aids and imaging diagnostics and treatments, including magnetic resonance, CT, ultrasound equipment, hematology testing systems, microbial testing systems, molecular diagnostic systems and other categoriesA dispute between Siemens Medical, the global medical device giant, and chinese dealers has taken a new step forwardRecently, some dealers have received refunds from Siemens MedicalThe matter began in the middle of last year, Siemens Medical to the sales contract expired but the seller did not pay as agreed, one after another confiscated 10% of the dealer's contract deposit, by more than 30 dealers across the country collective rights protectionBut at the time, Siemens responded to the dealer that the dealer's trading habits lacked legal basis and there had been no refundsSince the confiscation of the deposit by the dealer rights from January this year, an "open letter to Siemens medical dealers" began to circulate on the Internet, the open letter pointed out that Siemens Medical in order to complete the sales task, forcing its agent dealers to sign some false contracts, and require these dealers in accordance with the contract to pay 10% of the purchase price as a deposit for equipmentHowever, due to the large gap between the amount set by the contract and the amount digested by the market, many dealers were unable to perform the contract as scheduled, resulting in the previous payment of the deposit by Siemens Medical according to the contract to be confiscatedSeveral Siemens medical dealers said the contents of the open letter were trueAccording to a previous report in Rule of Law Weekend, a Siemens Healthcare dealer said that in order to meet the quarterly performance targets, Siemens Medical's regional managers would require dealers to sign multiple sales contracts in advance and pay a 10% deposit"These contracts are untrue because the contract form needs to be filled in 'end user' (i.eprocurement
hospital)But in the actual sales, most of these users are currently only the intention, people finally want or not not at all, not to mention have not yet participated in the bidding Siemens Medical's dealer told the media According to dealers, they had to sign such contracts out of pressure", "because Siemens Medical used to have opaque medical device prices, and if they didn't sign it, the prices of the products they would get would be high." There is also the risk of disqualifying dealers and cutting off the product sales area "So what if the contract can't be completed?" Siemens Medical Guangzhou area dealer Mr Wu told the media, before 2014, although in accordance with the contract agreement, these can not complete the contract is required to confiscate the dealer deposit, but because of "knowing", this clause has not been fulfilled, these deposits have not been returned to the dealer, but in the form of contract transfer to the newly signed contract order But last year, Siemens Medical announced that it would remove the transferable model of non-performance of the contract deposit and confiscate it directly as agreed in the contract In a notice sent to the dealer by Siemens Medical, Siemens Medical stated that the sales contract had expired but the seller had not paid as agreed, and therefore the deposit was not refunded and the contract was terminated in accordance with the terms of the contract and the provisions of the Chinese contract law.