Deaths, ac­cu­sa­tions of in­sid­er trad­ing and an ear­ly warn­ing from Boehringer stir Han­mi con­tro­ver­sy

Con­tro­ver­sy over a lethal can­cer drug de­vel­oped by Han­mi and Boehringer In­gel­heim con­tin­ues to bub­ble up in Ko­rea.

In re­cent days a mem­ber of the op­po­si­tion Min­joo par­ty — Rep. Jung Choun-sook — cir­cu­lat­ed a let­ter from Boehringer In­gel­heim dat­ing back to Au­gust 23rd stat­ing that they were halt­ing en­roll­ment and stud­ies of ol­mu­tinib at the rec­om­men­da­tion of the Da­ta Mon­i­tor­ing Com­mit­tee, ac­cord­ing to a re­port in the Ko­rea Her­ald. And he ac­cused the coun­try’s food and drug safe­ty min­istry of al­low­ing tri­als to con­tin­ue even af­ter the dan­gers be­came ap­par­ent.

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