{"id":6789,"date":"2012-07-06T09:57:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T08:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=6789"},"modified":"2012-07-09T10:04:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T09:04:34","slug":"glaxosmithkline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2012\/07\/06\/glaxosmithkline\/","title":{"rendered":"GlaxoSmithKline allegedly bribing Polish doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenews.pl\/1\/12\/Artykul\/105060,GlaxoSmithKline-allegedly-bribing-Polish-doctors\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6790\" title=\"GlaxoSmithKline allegedly bribing Polish doctors\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/120709_gsk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Prosecutors and the Polish Anti-Corruption Bureau are investigating reports that UK-based pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline allegedly bribed doctors in Poland to prescribe their drugs ahead of other manufacturers.\u201cWe believe that doctors took a form of bribes from representatives of the company in the years 2010-11,\u201d Krzysztof Kopania, a spokesman for the regional prosecutor&#8217;s office in Lodz, central Poland, told the Gazeta Wyborcza daily. The report comes the day after a court in the US has sentenced GlaxoSmithKline to a 3 billion USD penalty after the company pleaded guilty to promoting antidepressants Paxil and Wellbutrin for unapproved uses.\u00c2\u00a0 Gazeta Wyborcza writes that it has seen a copy of an agreement prepared by GlaxoSmithKline, where doctors pledge to promote drugs by the company to patients and other doctors, after which they would receive payments. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenews.pl\/1\/12\/Artykul\/105060,GlaxoSmithKline-allegedly-bribing-Polish-doctors\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Poland |  Company: GlaxoSmithKline\u00c2\u00a0 | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenews.pl\/1\/12\/Artykul\/105060,GlaxoSmithKline-allegedly-bribing-Polish-doctors\" target=\"_blank\">Polskie Radio<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors and the Polish Anti-Corruption Bureau are investigating reports that UK-based pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline allegedly bribed doctors in Poland to prescribe their drugs ahead of other manufacturers.\u201cWe believe that doctors took a form of bribes from representatives of the company in the years 2010-11,\u201d Krzysztof Kopania, a spokesman for the regional prosecutor&#8217;s office in Lodz,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-6789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gsk","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6789"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=6789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}