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Drugs firms face price-fix cases

13 April 2012

PRICE-fixing prosecutions against pharmaceuticals companies by the Serious Fraud Office and the Department of Health can go ahead.

The High Court today rejected a claim by one of the firms involved, Kent Pharmaceuticals, that the SFO had breached human rights under European law by handing over some of the 6,000 documents seized in a raid on its premises to the Department of Health.

The SFO alleges that, between 1996 and 2000, prices of generic drugs supplied to the NHS increased eightfold.

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