eTaiwan News
Date: 2015-06-16
By: Central News Agency
Taipei, June 16 (CNA) Prosecutors on Tuesday questioned 27 people, including doctors from six hospitals, in an investigation of alleged bribery by a distributor of medical products. Prosecutors and law enforcement officials on Tuesday also searched the premises of the company — Rotary Trading Co. which is the Taiwan distributor of Toshiba medical products — and its subsidiaries and affiliated enterprises, and the homes and offices of the people allegedly involved in the scandal. A total of 27 suspects and witnesses were interrogated, including doctors mostly from the departments of radiology, hepatobiliary and gastroenterology at six hospitals, prosecutors said. Rotary Trading Chairman Lin Yu-liang and seven chief physicians were among the people questioned, prosecutors said. [FULL STORY]