Novartis Hellas S.A.C.I. (Novartis Greece), a subsidiary of Novartis AG, a Switzerland-based global pharmaceutical company, and Alcon Pte Ltd, a former subsidiary of Novartis AG and current subsidiary of Alcon Inc., a multinational eye care company, have agreed to pay a combined total of more than $233 million in criminal monetary penalties to resolve the department’s investigation into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
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Is there any way we can get politicians and the media to pay for their corrupt practices?
that’s on top of the nearly $700,000,000 fine Novartis just agreed to pay for bribing thousands of docs to prescribe their meds ... Novartis also had to admit to a whole list of illegal practices and promise never to do it again ...
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Novartis R&D Facility Closure and Surplus from Additional Novartis Sites
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