Advert - LEO Pharma – Case AUTH/3548/7/21

• Date posted
  16 June 2023
• Sanction
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• Case number/s
  AUTH/3548/7/21 - Complainant v Leo

For the improper conduct by a senior Leo employee in actively seeking confidential discount price information about a competitor product from NHS staff, for the purposes of Leo’s own commercial interests, the company was ruled in breach of the following clauses of the 2016 Code:

Clause 2 - Bringing discredit upon, and reducing confidence in, the pharmaceutical
industry
Clause 9.1 - Failing to maintain high standards