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Japan drug wholesalers Alfresa, Toho and Suzuken to be fined total of $3.6 million for price cartel

By Toko Sekiguchi
  • 07 Feb 2022 00:56
  • 07 Feb 2022 01:35
Japan’s top pharmaceutical wholesalers Alfresa, Toho Pharmaceutical and Suzuken will be fined 416 million yen ($3.6 million) for rigging bids of prescription drugs sold in 57 hospitals nation-wide through a quasi-public healthcare management operator, MLex has learned.
Alfresa, Toho and Suzuken, will be sanctioned 170 million yen, 160 million yen,

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Toko Sekiguchi

Senior Correspondent, Tokyo


Toko is a senior correspondent in Tokyo covering antitrust, anti-bribery & corruption, financial services and regulatory issues in Japan. Before joining MLex, she has worked as a journalist for The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones News, Bloomberg News and Time Magazine.

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