Chinese police charge British former head of GSK in China with bribery

[Jesus Malverde]

Source: Reuters

Chinese police on Wednesday said they had charged the former British boss of drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC's China business and other colleagues with corruption, after a probe found the firm made billions of yuan from elaborate schemes to bribe doctors and hospitals.

Mark Reilly and two Chinese executives, Zhang Guowei and Zhao Hongyan, were also suspected of bribing officials in the industry and commerce departments of Beijing and Shanghai, the official Xinhua news agency reported, quoting police in Hunan province.

The case is the biggest corruption scandal to hit a foreign company in China since the Rio Tinto affair in 2009, which resulted in four executives, including an Australian, being jailed for between seven and 14 years.

GSK is Britain's biggest drugmaker.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/14/us-china-glaxosmithkline-idUSBREA4D03720140514

---

carry a maximum sentence of life in prison

[One_Life_To_Give]

1. Only bribing Dr's and Hospitals won't end well.