Servier laboratories fined 2.7 million euros for “aggravated deception”



The Mediator trial opened on September 23, 2019 in Paris and is scheduled to last six months. – VALINCO / SIPA

Servier laboratories were found guilty of “aggravated deception” and fined 2.7 million euros, said Monday by the 31st correctional chamber of the Paris judicial court. More than ten years after the resounding scandal of the Mediator, a drug held responsible for hundreds of deaths, the Paris court rendered its judgment against Servier laboratories and the Medicines Agency.

The laboratories have “weakened confidence in the health system”, declared the president of the tribunal Sylvie Daunis. On the other hand, the laboratories were acquitted of the facts of “fraud”. Jean-Philippe Seta, the former number 2 of the pharmaceutical group and former right-hand man of the all-powerful Jacques Servier, who died in 2014, was sentenced to four years of suspended imprisonment. The Medicines Agency for its part was fined 303,000 euros.

During the “517 hours and a few minutes of hearing” of a trial-river opened in September 2019 and closed in July 2020, a question was central: how the Mediator could he be prescribed for thirty-three years despite repeated alerts on its dangerousness?



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