Aachen - flat screens, laptops and expensive coffee machines: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies Trommsdorff from Alsdorf (Kreis Aachen), have skimmed several hundred doctors seem orderly.
They are drugs of studies for the pharmaceutical company have received gifts without reporting it to the sickness funds. This was confirmed on Saturday, Chief Prosecutor Robert Deller. On suspicion of embezzlement and fraud, the Public Prosecutor of Aachen has now launched an investigation about 480 doctors from all over Germany.
The doctors should have done for marketing surveillance of possible side effects of medications. Depending on the number of patients, there was Trommsdorff return times of a nice screen, sometimes a smart notebook.
The Aachen Public Prosecutor's Office determined against employees of the pharmaceutical company. The first ten cases against field staff were recruited on payment of a fine.
The consequences for the doctors were not yet in sight, the prosecutor. In addition, the documents had not been fully evaluated. The number of investigations could perfectly well increases.
