Pfizer, Wyeth Pay $60 Million In Settlement

The SEC said Pfizer's employees and agents paid bribes in Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Italy, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Serbia. Improper payments went to foreign officials 'to obtain regulatory and formulary approvals, sales, and increased prescriptions for the company’s pharmaceutical products.'

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AZ Indicted For Bribery In Serbia

U.K.-based pharma AstraZeneca said its office in Belgrade, Serbia was served with a criminal indictment 'relating to allegations that local employees . . . made allegedly improper payments to physicians at the Institute of Oncology and Radiology of Serbia.'

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