Pfizer has dismissed as “preposterous” claims that it ran a “dirty tricks” operation to scuttle a Nigerian federal lawsuit, as the US pharmaceutical group struggles to compensate people affected by a clinical trial it ran in 1996.
A cable from the US embassy in Nigeria last year released on WikiLeaks via the UK’s Guardian newspaper claimed that Pfizer’s country director had hired investigators to uncover corruption allegations concerning the federal attorney-general and feed them to the local media.
via ft.com
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