UK pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline to bribe a criminal investigation in Poland allegedly doctors is faced, BBC has discovered panorama.
Eleven doctors and a GSK were about alleged corruption between 2010 and 2012 busy regional manager.
A former sales representative said that doctors promoting the GSK's asthma drug Seretide were paid.
The company said, had been disciplined an employee and it was with investigations.
If the allegations are proved, can GSK who has committed UK Bribery Act and the US foreign corrupt practices Act. It is illegal for companies based in two countries to bribe employees in the public service abroad.
"Financial gain""A former sales representative for GSK in the Polish region of Lodz, Jarek Wisniewski, said:"It is a simple equation,"he said."We pay doctors, they give us recipes. We do not pay doctors, we see no recipes for our medicines.
"" We can not go to doctors, and say to them: "I need 20 more recipes". So we have an agreement for them a lecture for patients give cause, we pay £100, but we expect more than 100 recipes for this drug.
"It is a bribe," said Mr Wisniewski, confirmed that although on paper were the payments for education services, the doctors very clearly that they have to produce a certain number of recipes in return.
Lodz Prosecutor evidence found in documents, the doctors by GSK to support the claims of corrupt payments in more than a dozen different health centres given where there had been no evidence of "Patient Education".
Spokesman Krzysztof Kopania said: "we have evidence that it was a disguised form of corruption in more than a dozen cases.
"In return for the financial gain would the doctors proposed by this product prefer pharmaceutical companies and she prescribed medicine."
A doctor already has debt, pay a fine and a suspended sentence was doomed. He said he accepted he never gave £100 for a single lecture, but only under the pressure of a GSK drug Rep.
He told panorama: "they were tempting, and I'm only a human being."
Reprimanded and disciplinedThe company said that a GSK training program to improve the diagnostic standards and medical training in respiratory diseases by doctors in Poland from 2010 to 2012 run was.
A statement said: "these meetings were medical professionals, specialists on the basis of contracts with GSK, attached, the amount of work and their knowledge and experience payments delivered." The provision of meetings under this programme agreed with the Polish medical centers.
"After receiving the allegations on the conduct of the programme in the region of Lodz, GSK the matter examined use of computers inside and outside of the company. The investigation found evidence of inappropriate communications in violation of GSK policy by an individual employee. The affected employee was reprimanded and disciplined as a result.
"We continue to examine these issues and work together fully with CBA [Poland's anti-corruption Central]."
In the year 2012, GSK paid 3 billion $ (£1 billion) in the largest settlement of health care scam in U.S. history after pleading guilty to promote two drugs for unapproved uses and it failed to report safety data about a diabetes medication, the food and drug administration.
In December last year, the company announced that major changes to its incentive systems to made it a damaging corruption scandal in China.
The Chinese Ministry of public security said that between 2007 and 2010 GSK 3 billion Chinese Yuan (£300 m) come through travel agencies.
It said it would end to stop direct payments to doctors for promotional talks and individual targets for its sales staff as part of a larger effort to improve transparency.
Panorama: who is to pay your doctor?, BBC one, Monday, 14 April at 20:30 BST, and then in England on theBBC iPlayer.
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