Police seized documents from the Russian office of the Swiss farmanara Roche
Officers conducted a seizure of documents at the office of the Russian subsidiary of the Swiss pharmaceutical concern Roche, RBC reports.
Excavation carried out in the framework of the criminal case against the employees of the company under part 4 of article 159 of the criminal code (fraud in especially large size). They are charged with bribing doctors and selling funds from a cancer on the black market.
In December of last year it became known that the anticancer drug “Gazela”, which is manufactured by Roche facilities in the Ufa, were not included in the list of drugs purchased under the program of public procurement. As a result, according to the General Director of the Russian branch of Roche Nenad Pavletich, the return of 1.5 billion rubles, invested by the company in the Russian pharmaceutical industry, has been called into question.