Servi­er found guilty of fraud in tri­al over pulled weight loss drug Me­di­a­tor, re­vers­ing ear­li­er rul­ing

The French drug com­pa­ny Servi­er has been or­dered to pay an­oth­er hefty fine for its role in a scan­dal re­lat­ed to its weight loss drug Me­di­a­tor, a French court ruled Wednes­day.

The com­pa­ny must pay €430 mil­lion ($470 mil­lion) af­ter be­ing found guilty of fraud. Servi­er sold Me­di­a­tor while know­ing it was po­ten­tial­ly harm­ful to cus­tomers, the court found, re­vers­ing an ear­li­er rul­ing which had ac­quit­ted the com­pa­ny of the charge.

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