South African firm Aspen Pharmacare is claimed to have ‘plotted to destroy supplies of life-saving cancer medicines’ over a battle to drive up prices in Europe.
The Daily Mail reports that Aspen is understood to have proposed the wastage during a row with the Spanish health service in 2014, while it is also said to have threatened to stop supplying medicine to Italian authorities a year earlier.
The price drive began after the firm, whose European headquarters is based in Dublin,bought the rights to five cancer medicines from British firm GlaxoSmithKline.