Two new indictments have just been pronounced in the Mediator case. After that of Jacques Servier in December 2012, the list continues to grow. Back on this succession of indictments, judicial inquiries and trials.
Two new indictments in the Mediator case. The n ° 2 of the Servier laboratories, Jean-Philippe Seta, and the former UMP senator Marie-Thérèse Hermange are suspected of having pressured for a senatorial report on the Mediator to minimize the responsibility of the Servier laboratory and put forward that of Afssaps. These two new indictments took place in a case for influence peddling. The precise reason for the latest indictments has not been specified. But, according to telephone tapping revealed by Le Figaro, Claude Griscelli professor emeritus of pediatrics and genetics, former director of the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) explained to Jean-Philippe Seta, that at the asks Senator Marie-Thérèse Hermange, he had “worked[é] with her for the Senate ”on the report she wrote and“ changed a lot of things ”. An investigation against Claude Griscelli for “illegal taking of interest”, would also be in progress. In 2004, although he was a member of the Council of State, the scientist would have agreed to carry out paid missions for the pharmaceutical laboratories Servier and Wyeth.
The list of indictments
While the 1st Servier trial is due to resume on May 21, the list of indictments continues to grow. Jacques Servier, the founder of the laboratories, was indicted in December for deception and fraud but also for homicides and unintentional injuries. Other senior executives followed: Christian Bazantay, general secretary of the group, was indicted in February for “complicity in the offense of illegal participation of a civil servant in a previously controlled company”. On the side of the Medicines and Health Products Safety Agency (ANSM), two former employees were indicted in February: Jean-Michel Alexandre, who was chairman of the marketing authorization commission in Ministry of Health from 1985 to 1993, then director of drug evaluation at the Medicines Agency from 1993 to 2000; as well as Eric Abadie, director of evaluation at Afssaps from 2007. In mid-March, Dominique Maraninchi suffered the same fate. He was indicted for homicides and unintentional injuries, as the legal representative of the ANSM.
Judicial information and trials in the plural
On the other hand, no minister is for the moment worried by justice. A complaint filed by an alleged victim of Mediator targeted four former ministers: Philippe Douste-Blazy, Bernard Kouchner, Jean-François Mattei and Xavier Bertrand. The complaint was closed by the Court of Justice of the Republic, considering that they “had not been warned of the risks of the Mediator before the alert was given at the end of 2009”. In addition, several judicial inquiries are in progress, for influence peddling, for deception and fraud, and for “involuntary homicides and injuries”. Finally, two trials must be held: one at the Paris Criminal Court, and the other at the Nanterre Criminal Court on May 21. In December 2012, the Court of Cassation ruled out grouping together the ongoing legal proceedings concerning the Mediator case.
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