Sector / Industry
Pharmaceutical and Medical Device
Product Development and Manufacturing
Examples:
- Offering donations to research institutions or healthcare professionals with an aim of securing a favourable disposition over their product in the research and development stage.
- Offering advantages to public servants for speeding up patent application or product registration.
- Offering advantages to auditors for certification of medical devices or pharmaceutical products (e.g. GMP certification, ISO certification).
- Accepting advantages from suppliers for procurement of products or product ingredients.
- Accepting advantages for leakage of proprietary information to competitors.
Sales and Marketing
Examples:
- Offering advantages to healthcare professionals for recommending particular drugs or equipment in the assessment board or drug enlistment application.
- Obtaining confidential tendering information by offering advantages to involved healthcare professionals.
- Sponsoring healthcare professionals to attend overseas conference in exchange for the use or recommendation of their companies' products.
- Offering frequent or lavish entertainment to healthcare professionals with the power to recommend or select drugs or medical devices for respective medical institutions.
- Diverting business to competitors or companies with financial interest for rebates.
- Accepting advantages from clients for allocating products in high-demand preferentially.
Product Distribution
Examples:
- Accepting advantages from contractors for placing service orders (e.g. logistics services for product delivery).
- Accepting advantages for granting discounts and benefits to non-qualified clients.
- Providing excessive product samples to healthcare professionals.
- Falsifying stock records to cover up pilferage of product samples or premiums.
- Abusing staff purchase scheme and reselling products for personal gain.
Conflict of Interest
Examples:
- Having financial interest in the business of a medical supplies company which is also one of the potential suppliers.
- Handling procurement matters while one of the companies which submitted tender or quotation is operated by a relative.
- Serving as a member of the recruitment board while a close personal friend is one of the candidates.
- Undertaking part-time work for a competitor or a contractor.