Ex-J&J Unit Executive Pleads Guilty to Bribery
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A former executive at Johnson & Johnson’s U.K. unit, DePuy International, pleaded guilty to taking part in paying 4.5 million pounds ($7 million) in bribes to Greek doctors and was sentenced to a year in jail.
Robert John Dougall, 44, the former director of marketing at Leeds, England-based DePuy, admitted in a London court today to paying commissions in advance on sales made by Medec SA, a Greek distributor of the health care company’s orthopedic products. Some of the money was used to make “incentive payments” to persuade Greek surgeons to use DePuy’s products, the U.K. Serious Fraud Office said in a statement.