“As part of my role as pharmacist, an investigation is underway,” confirms the minister

The new Minister of Health specifies that she will reserve “the discussions that I should have with the competent authorities in the following days”.

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The new Minister of Health, Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, at the National Assembly, December 20, 2023. (LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP)

“As part of my role as pharmacist, an investigation is indeed underway”confirms Friday December 22 on France Blue Normandy Acting Minister of Health Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, accused by Mediapart of having received gifts worth 20,000 euros from Urgo laboratories as a pharmacist without having declared them.

The minister specifies that she will reserve “the discussions that I should have with the competent authorities in the following days”.

The prosecution has so far only confirmed the opening of an investigation for “unauthorized perception by a health professional of advantages provided by a person producing or marketing health products”, without giving the identity of the pharmacists. targeted by the investigation.


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