AstraZeneca Employees Detained in China: CEO Says Firm Is Working With Authorities

AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot discusses China’s detainment of five current and former employees for questioning about potential illegal activities. "We are working very closely with the authorities," Soriot said during an interview on Bloomberg Television, Tuesday. "But it's impossible to have a compliance officer being each and every one of our field based employees," he added. "We believe that China will remain an important part of our company."
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[TheKkpop]

There must be a strong reason China take action against astrazeneca

[tnt_pkk]

Bloomberg host asked all anti China questions

[MrKenng]

I do hope that all economic indicators like industrial production GDP PMI retail sales and consumer confidence will all weaken significantly and be much worse than expected. Thanks.

[TheSmokey]

I heard that they had smuggled in unapproved medicine.

[fallinloveatfirstdream]

Bloomberg reporters often ask the wrong questions when consuming marijuana.

[---zgex]

PWC in China is being penalized and restricted doing business, the real reason is to give US government a warning sign; Since European union not friendly with Chinese EVs, let's give them a little taste of medicine, in this case AZ

[semp]

12K employees in China. That just ain't right.

[sureshbora]

Sorry to hear this news, as CEO, He has no control over government decisions in China 🇨🇳 since it’s great loss for the company like AZ who always puts Patients first in their every research. it’s is great loss for not only as AZ company also great loss for ongoing researches 😒

[btrueday]

The CEO is doing a good job answering the questions without putting the blame to any particular government, despite the interviewer's attempts

[lastChang]

This shows how unbelievably brazen the Chinese 🇨🇳 regime is when they go unpunished.