GlaxoSmithKline is considering an appeal after the UK’s competition watchdog fined the company more than £37m for allegedly paying drugs manufacturers millions of pounds to keep cheap generic medications out of the UK market.
The fine is the biggest that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and its predecessor the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), have levied on a single company since it handed British Airways a £58.2m penalty in 2012.
It is also the largest fine ever to be handed to a drugs company by a UK competition regulator. The last pharmaceuticals firm to be penalised was Reckitt Benckiser, which was fined £10.2m in 2011 for issues relating to its acid reflux medication Gaviscon.
Back in 2012, GSK was fined $3bn (£1.9bn) by a US court after admitting bribing doctors and encouraging the prescription of unsuitable antidepressants to children.
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Eddie
5 comments:
Yet another corporation behaving badly. What will it take for them all to change.
Bloody hell have just read the last paragraph on the link Eddie gave.
Ben
Good grief, that is appalling.
Oh they'll just sell another £37 million statins to pay off the fine.
When ever I see the word dietician I now think mortician
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