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Sanofi executive willing to go to jail if bribery proven in Philippine vaccine controversy

( December 14, 2017, 06:10 GMT | Insight) -- The head of ​Sanofi Pasteur Asia Pacific, Thomas Triomphe, denied any irregularities in its supply of vaccines for the Philippine government’s controversial mass dengue immunization program, and said he was willing to go to jail if bribery allegations were proven, The Philippine Daily Inquirer reports.The head of ​Sanofi Pasteur Asia Pacific, Thomas Triomphe, denied any irregularities in its supply of vaccines for the Philippine government’s controversial mass dengue immunization program, and said he was willing to go to jail if bribery allegations were proven, The Philippine Daily Inquirer reports. Under questioning from lawmakers at a hearing into the controversy yesterday, Triomphe maintained that the French drugmaker complied with local regulations when it supplied the vaccine Dengvaxia to the Philippine government in 2016. Sanofi is facing a potential lawsuit after it announced that Dengvaxia potentially has ill effects, and reports surfaced of an undisclosed meeting between Sanofi executives and the former health secretary who approved the program....

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