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Pharma giants paid millions to Russian distributor tied to corruption claims

Original: Pharma giants pay millions to Russian distributor entangled in corruption allegations to win cancer drug business

An investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reports that major pharmaceutical companies paid millions of dollars to a Russian distributor implicated in corruption allegations in order to secure business supplying cancer drugs. The findings raise questions about how Western drugmakers operated in Russia and the compliance safeguards they used when entering the lucrative oncology market there.

Why now: A new investigative report has just exposed the payments, prompting debate about drug industry practices in Russia.

International Consortium of Investigative JournalistsRussiapharmaceutical industry

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