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    Hangzhou Doc Sentenced to 12 Years Over Shady Pharma Business

    Aug 29, 2019

    A senior doctor at a public hospital in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for illegally selling drugs on behalf of pharmaceutical companies, a media outlet affiliated with the country’s top anti-graft body reported Wednesday.

    Sun Zhilong, the former vice director of Fuyang No. 2 People’s Hospital and a member of the hospital’s party committee, was convicted in April for receiving roughly 16.7 million yuan ($2.3 million) in bribes since 2007 and for using his influence at the hospital to approve new drugs for patients, according to the official newspaper of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Authorities discovered that Sun was working as a dealer for pharmaceutical companies under his cousin’s name after police were alerted in February that Sun and representatives from various drug companies were involved in gambling-related activity, which is illegal in China.

    A representative surnamed Zhang from an unnamed company paid Sun over 1 million yuan between 2010 and 2011, according to the report. The case has also prompted an anti-graft movement throughout Hangzhou’s public hospitals, with authorities retrieving 1.6 million yuan sent to medical professionals in the form of “red envelopes” — digital money — as of Wednesday. (Image: From the website of Fuyang No. 2 Peoples Hospital)