Ex-Siemens Worker Says He Was Fired for Flagging Kickback
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Siemens AG, Europe’s largest engineering company, was sued by a former compliance officer in its China unit who claimed he was fired after exposing evidence of hospital kickbacks.
Meng-Lin Liu filed a whistle-blower complaint in Manhattan federal court today, claiming he uncovered a scheme in which Siemens Ltd. China submitted inflated bids to sell medical diagnostic and scanning equipment to public hospitals in China and North Korea, and then sold the equipment at reduced prices to intermediaries that charged the hospitals the full bid price.