2023-12-21 19:53:30
Pharmacist by profession, Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, who runs a pharmacy in Le Havre (Normandy), “is suspected of having had luxury products delivered on 21 occasions, from 2015 to 2020 – watches, bottles of wine and magnums of champagne, boxes for weekends, etc. – for a total amount estimated at 20,000 euros, from Urgo laboratories”selon Mediapart. “Urgo thus sought to retain pharmacists and increase their commercial margins”continues Mediapart.
“A second part of the affair” has begun
In January 2023, Urgo laboratories were fined 1,125,000 euros, including 625,000 suspended, for offering gifts to pharmacists, in return for giving up commercial discounts. According to Mediapart, “a second part of the affair” began, justice looking into all the pharmacists who received gifts.
In Normandy, the General Directorate for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) is dealing with around forty files. “The lightest cases (less than 1,000 euros of bonus) are classified. While the other cases give rise to the opening of a preliminary investigation, in June 2023”explains the newspaper, according to which Agnès Firmin Le Bodo appears “among the biggest alleged beneficiaries”.
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