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Urgo affair: “I was not suspicious”, recognizes the vice-president of the Association of rural pharmacies
Marc Alandry was convicted of having received 14,000 euros in gratuities from Urgo. Guest of 12/13 info, Thursday January 11, he indicates having been deceived by the laboratory. – (Franceinfo)
Marc Alandry was convicted of having received 14,000 euros in gratuities from Urgo. Guest of 12/13 info, Thursday January 11, he indicates having been deceived by the laboratory.
Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo, Minister of Health, was questioned for having received gifts from the Urgo laboratory from 2015 to 2020, worth 20,000 euros, while she was a pharmacist. Others are implicated like Marc Alandry, vice-president of the Association of Rural Pharmacies. This pharmacist, guest of 12/13 info, Thursday January 11, was fined 17,500 euros for having received 14,000 euros in gratuities from Urgo. “These are not gifts, it is a system of exchanging discounts for points”, he explains.
The pharmacist was concerned about the legality with Urgo
Pharmacists have the choice between having a volume discount on purchases or receiving office equipment or even vaccine refrigerators and some luxury items. Marc Alandry claims to have asked Urgo’s representative on numerous occasions if this was legal. “Far be it from me that it was about the anti-gift law”he explains. “I wasn’t suspicious, I was stupid”adds the vice-president of the Association of Rural Pharmacies.
The pharmacist thought that this practice was regulated and validated by the State. Marc Alandry believes he was “betrayed by [ses] friends of Urgo. “It almost seemed like a reward for my regularity of work with this laboratory”concludes the man who has become aware of the extent of his fault.
