Ko­re­an bio­phar­ma ex­ec­u­tive in­dict­ed for al­leged­ly con­duct­ing il­le­gal tri­als on com­pa­ny re­searchers

Ko­re­an news out­lets are re­port­ing that an ex­ec­u­tive at a ma­jor Ko­re­an phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­ny has been ar­rest­ed for con­duct­ing il­le­gal clin­i­cal tests on com­pa­ny re­searchers.

Cit­ing the Seoul West­ern Dis­trict Pros­e­cu­tors’ Of­fice and oth­er of­fi­cials, The Ko­rea Times re­port­ed that Auh Jin of Ahn-Gook Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal was ar­rest­ed for car­ry­ing out il­le­gal tests on the com­pa­ny’s own re­searchers in vi­o­la­tion of the coun­try’s phar­ma­cy law. The Ko­rea Her­ald sim­i­lar­ly re­port­ed that Jin had been ar­rest­ed.

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