The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced two former senior generic pharmaceutical executives have been charged over price-fixing of generic medicines.
Former Heritage Pharmaceuticals executives Jeffrey Glazer and Jason Malek, who served as chief executive and president respectively, are alleged to have conspired to fix prices, rig bids and allocate customers for an antibiotic, doxycycline hyclate – manufactured by Netherlands-headquartered Mylan (Nasdaq: MYL) – in collusion with other unnamed drugmakers.
"It’s a sad state of affairs when these pharmaceutical executives are determined to further pad their profits on the backs of people whose health depends on the company’s drugs"
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