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    The largest scale anti commercial bribery in the pharmaceutical industry

    • Last Update: 2013-08-23
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    August 23, 2013 source: Yangcheng Evening News "now the medical representatives, like the rats passing the street, dare not come out for activities and take all their holidays." With the deployment of ministries and commissions of public security, industry and commerce, health and family planning, taxation, and drug supervision, the most strict and largest anti-commercial bribery in the history of the pharmaceutical industry, it is said that the national pharmaceutical representatives have taken a vacation, and many pharmaceutical enterprises' academic conferences have been suspended Some foreign pharmaceutical enterprises also allow relevant personnel to take annual leave collectively "Now everyone is saying that the hospital is full of" plain clothes police " If the medical representative is caught, he will be fined 500 yuan If the regional manager is caught, he will be fined 1000 yuan Who dares to go to the hospital?" A medical representative, who did not want to be named, told reporters that his pharmaceutical company has now ordered them to take all paid holidays The reporter learned from a pharmaceutical company that a large-scale academic seminar in the Asia Pacific region, originally scheduled to be held this week, was also temporarily cancelled due to the "tight wind" "This kind of large-scale academic seminar was supposed to be attended by doctors from many countries, but domestic doctors were afraid to attend, so they had to cancel it temporarily." "Once attending the meeting, it will involve travel and other expenses Now doctors are afraid of flying and staying in hotels, and they are afraid of being involved if they are not careful," the staff of the pharmaceutical company told reporters According to the reporter's rough statistics, up to now, 8 foreign pharmaceutical enterprises, including GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi, youshibi and Novartis, have been involved in the "muddy water" of commercial bribery While other pharmaceutical companies that are not involved have kept a low-key self insurance policy, and some even arranged the relevant personnel to take annual leave Relevant reports: the State Administration of Taxation focuses on combating money laundering, tax laundering, large amount of cash withdrawal and other acts in the pharmaceutical industry )After the event of commercial bribery was exposed, many departments, such as the Ministry of public security, the State Administration of industry and commerce, the health and Family Planning Commission, the State Administration of Taxation, the State Administration of pharmaceutical supervision, the Ministry of Commerce, the development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of human resources and social security, worked together to rectify the unhealthy trend of pharmaceutical purchase and sale The reporter learned from his work yesterday that under the heavy rectification, pharmaceutical enterprises face new challenges in marketing and financial processing, such as opening high returns, passing tickets, commission returns, etc., and pharmaceutical enterprises urgently train medical financial and tax management personnel Since the disclosure of GSK's bribery in China, the domestic pharmaceutical industry has been faced with intensive consolidation and investigation in the field of Finance and taxation First, the State Administration of Taxation issued the notice on seriously doing a good job in cracking down on illegal invoice activities in 2013, and carried out special invoice rectification activities for pharmaceutical, medical equipment and other industries In this round of rectifying the illegal and criminal activities of invoices, we will focus on severely cracking down on money laundering, tax laundering, large amount of cash withdrawal and other acts in the pharmaceutical, medical equipment and other industries The Ministry of Commerce once again stressed the special rectification of "false transactions, affiliated operations, sales of tax tickets, passing tickets" and other behaviors in the circulation of drugs The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection printed and distributed the Interim Measures for investigation and handling of disciplinary violations by employees of medical institutions to strictly control the purchase and sale of hospital drugs It can be predicted that with the real implementation of various regulatory policies, traditional marketing potential rules such as rebate, commission, commission fee and so on will lose their survival soil "Even foreign pharmaceutical companies, whose financial management is still formal, have been checked, and now domestic pharmaceutical companies are in danger of their own personal injury." "Nowadays, it is more difficult for pharmaceutical companies to deal with such marketing finance as high opening and high return, ticket passing and commission return," a pharmaceutical industry official told Yangcheng Evening News The reporter learned from his work that a training meeting on medical finance and tax management and risk control, which is specially aimed at the deputy general manager of finance, general manager of marketing, financial manager, sales accountant, person in charge of marketing finance and person in charge of marketing related departments of pharmaceutical enterprises, will be held at the end of this month It is reported that some executives of GSK, including the vice president and general manager of operation, vice president and director of human resources of GSK China, general manager of business development business operation and many employees suspected of serious business bribery and other economic crimes, have been put on criminal detention and investigated according to law It involves billions of black gold bribes, while the financial director of the core Department of fund management is "safe and sound" This also makes pharmaceutical companies have to urgently "learn" financial and tax management and risk control of medicine Recently, 8 foreign pharmaceutical companies were involved in the "muddy water" of commercial bribery GlaxoSmithKline was exposed to bribe individual officials, a small number of pharmaceutical industry associations and foundations, hospitals, doctors, etc in the form of direct bribery or sponsorship projects through channels such as Linjiang international travel agency Youshibi acknowledged that the State Administration for Industry and Commerce of the people's Republic of China visited and investigated compliance related information AstraZeneca Chinese police visited AstraZeneca's office in Shanghai, China, and were told by netizens that they bribed the director of anesthesia department of Shenzhen People's hospital Baite claims that its joint venture subsidiary has illegally handled marketing expenses through fictitious meetings and other means to bribe Chinese medical professionals Sanofi was anonymously reported that it paid nearly 1.7 million yuan of drug promotion commission to 503 doctors in 79 hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Guangzhou around November 2007 Novo Nordisk acknowledged the visit of the Chinese industry and Commerce Department, but it was not clear whether it was a routine inspection or a follow-up investigation of the Glaxo incident Novartis was exposed by the medical representatives who left the company to "buy" the doctor's promotion volume, and was also exposed by the former employees that it has handed over all the business such as meetings and travel to Linjiang International Travel Agency since 2011 Lilly has been exposed by former employees as only two main insulin products in Shanghai and Anhui regions, and the illegal cost of which is at least 30 million through direct rebate of doctors in a year  
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