U.S. drugmaker Eli Lilly and cooperation ceremony was "deeply concerned" was published in a Chinese newspaper that it took more than 300,000 yuan ($ 49,000 U.S. dollars) bribe to open the company's drugs, rather than a competitor's product in China Doctors allegations.
A former senior manager told the 21st Century Business Herald "of the company, to determine a pseudonym Wang Wei, bribery and illicit payments in Lilly extensive business in China, reported in Thursday's paper.
Lilly is the face of accusations of informants, in the newspaper, this month's third foreign pharmaceutical companies. Reports and pharmaceutical sector, across multiple Chinese investigations into alleged corruption in how the drug pricing.
"In order to hit the opponent to push the company's sales and the company's own products, and took bribes, and a variety of special payments extremely common company GlaxoSmithKline as bad as the level of the problem, Wang was quoted as saying.
The report said that bribery 30 million yuan was transferred over a period of about a year, from 2011 to 2012.
Police have detained four Chinese executives in the British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline allegations funnel up to 300 million yuan ($ 489.92 million), travel agencies facilitate bribes doctors to promote its drug sales. GlaxoSmithKline has said that some Chinese senior management seems to have violated the law.
Lilly in an emailed statement to Reuters, said it expects to do.
"Although we have been unable to verify these allegations, we put them seriously, and we will continue our investigation," the statement said.
U.S. company said it was aware of "rebate" similar charges in 2012 before sales manager. It said that the company has launched an investigation was related to employee interviews, e-mail monitoring and audit expense reports.
Wang told reporters that the company's employees to pay a bribe in order to promote the company's two major insulin products in Shanghai and neighboring Anhui Province.
Also made a further payment of kickbacks in the form of talks, meetings and other donations, he said.
Last week, the 21st Century Business Herald quoted an unnamed informants said that Novartis had paid bribes to doctors to increase sales of the drug, prompting the Swiss company launched an internal investigation.
Health officials are also investigating bribery allegations, said after Sanofi SA newspaper staff bribes totaling about 1.7 trillion yuan, at the end of 2007 more than 500 doctors, in order to promote sales. The French company has said it is taking the claims "very seriously."
In China's pharmaceutical industry corruption is widespread, partly because the country's 13,500 public hospital



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