A former Servier researcher and four doctors, former members of the AMM, have just been added to the list of charges in the Mediator affair. 21 people are on this list today.
The list of indictments in the Mediator case is still growing! Saccording to information revealed by the newspaper “Le Monde” on Monday, 5 new actors ofalready heard within the framework of the judicial investigation opened in Paris in February 2011, have just been indicted by the magistrates of the Paris health center. That brings the number of people on this list to 21.
In detail, these are four former members of the Marketing Authorization Commission (AMM) which reports to the National Medicines Safety Agency (formerly Afssaps).
Among them are Pr Charles Caulin, professor of medicine at Lariboisière hospital and former president of the MA commission at Afssaps between 1997 and 2003. The reasons for his indictment are as follows, “ illegal participation of an official in a previously controlled enterprise ”. This offense is punishable by two years’ imprisonment and a fine of 30,000 euros, the daily said. He is criticized in particular for the links he allegedly maintained with the Servier laboratories, as a consultant between 2004 and 2006, after having left the chairmanship of the MA committee.
Another name, that of Jean-Roger Claude. He is for his part indicted for “illegal taking of interest” over a period from 1984 to 2011. He is implicated for having been paid by the laboratories as a consultant while he was on the MA committee.
Another illegal catch of interest, that of Bernard Rouveix and Michel Detilleux, both doctors at Cochin hospital, who also sat on the AMM committee between 2003 and 2013. Regarding Mr. Rouveix, he is for example criticized for having played a consultant role at Servier while sitting on this commission between 2004 and 2008.
Finally, concerning the “deception” aspect of the case, again new names have been added to the list. This time with the indictment of a former researcher from the Servier laboratories, Prof. Jean Charpentier for “corruption”, complicity in deception and “complicity in obtaining undue authorization.” It was he who wrote the studies intended to obtain the Marketing Authorization of the Mediator in 1973, as an expert pharmacologist approved by the Ministry of Health. recognized as anti-diabetic He had also confirmed that the references to the anorectic effect of Mediator, as well as its relationship with amphetamine had been deleted.
In the last expert’s report, the number of victims of the Mediator was revised upwards by the legal experts in the case. According to them, between 1,300 and 1,800 long-term deaths are attributable to the drug. The product would also be at the origin of 3,100 and 4,200 hospitalizations, attributable to a valve disease. The trial targeting Servier laboratories will not resume until 2014.
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