Chinese police allege Glaxo sales reps trained to offer sexual bribes
Saturday, 27 July 2013 09:18
'GSK sales reps “established good personal relations with doctors by catering to their pleasures or offering them money, in order to make them prescribe more drugs,” China’s official news wire Xinhua reported on Friday.
Citing police investigations, Xinhua quoted a 35-year-old female “medical representative” who reportedly worked for a GSK regional sales manager named only as Mr Li. The woman, named as Ms Wang, said “some executives gave clear directives to the sales department to offer bribes to doctors with money or opportunities to attend academic conferences.”
Ms Wang said she would even go so far as fulfilling some doctors’ “sexual desires” in order to “meet their needs” and persuade them to prescribe more drugs.'