Indian cough syrup that killed 65 children was on market due to bribery: Uzbekistan
Distributors paid local officials a bribe of $33,000 to skip mandatory testing, Uzbek state prosecutors alleged during a trial on Wednesday
Indian cough syrup that killed 65 children was on market due to bribery: Uzbekistan
Tashkent: Distributors of a contaminated Indian cough syrup that killed 65 children in Uzbekistan paid local officials a bribe of $33,000 to skip mandatory testing, Uzbek state prosecutors alleged during a trial on Wednesday.
The Central Asian nation put 21 people on trial – 20 of whom are Uzbeks and one Indian – over the deaths last week, making public for the first time a much higher death toll than previously reported.
Three of the defendants (an Indian and two Uzbekistan nationals) are executives of Quramax Medical, a company that sold medicines produced by India’s Marion Biotech, in Uzbekistan.
According to state prosecutor Saidkarim Akilov, Quramax CEO Singh Raghvendra Pratap allegedly paid officials at the state centre for expertise and standardisation of medicinal products $33,000 so that they would skip a mandatory inspection of its products.
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