The pharmaceutical company’s cough syrups were linked to the deaths of 19 children in Uzbekistan, a police officer said
Police at the gate of an office of Marion Biotech, in Noida, India, December 29 2022. Picture: ANUSHREE FADNAVIS/REUTERS
The arrests were made after tests by an Indian government laboratory found 22 drug samples of Marion Biotech , based near New Delhi, “adulterated and spurious”, according to a police document seen by Reuters.Two directors were “out of the country and will be arrested as soon as they land in India”, senior police official Ram Badan Singh said.
Uzbekistan said in December the children died after consuming Marion’s cough syrups. India suspended Marion’s production soon after. The same toxin was found in cough syrups exported to Gambia by another Indian company, Maiden Pharmaceuticals.
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