The world’s biggest pharmaceutical company hired investigators to unearth evidence of corruption against the Nigerian attorney general in order to persuade him to drop legal action over a controversial drug trial involving children with meningitis, according to a leaked US embassy cable.
Today morning CNN is reporting, “In April 2009, U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer reached a financial agreement with a state government in Nigeria on lawsuits brought over an antibiotic that had been given to children during an outbreak of meningitis.
But a U.S. diplomatic cable quotes a Pfizer executive in Nigeria as saying the company also hired investigators to dig for evidence of corruption on the part of the then-attorney general in an effort to get him to drop a similar lawsuit at the federal level. The company has said the allegation is preposterous.”
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/09/wikileaks.nigeria/index.html
May be this is the reason why former Pfizer CEO Jeff Kindler’s suddenly resigned less than one week ago.
May be WikiLeaks reached out to them for comment, or the company found out about the impending cable release in some other way?
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