Bribery allegations at Indian drug regulator

The Indian Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested S. Eswara Reddy, joint drug controller at the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization and a former drug controller general of India, along with another CDSCO official, two pharma industry consultants and a biopharma executive. The five individuals were charged on June 19 with "criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery, to influence a public servant by corrupt or illegal means and bribery.”

In addition to those charged, the CBI alleged that other “unknown officials” at CDSCO, part of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, have accepted bribes. ...