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Agnès Firmin Le Bodo affair: the Minister of Health targeted by an investigation
Agnès Firmin Le Bodo is already at the heart of a controversy. According to Mediapart, the new Minister of Health would have received more than 20,000 euros in gifts from the URGO laboratory, without having declared them, while she was still a pharmacist. An investigation is underway. – (Franceinfo)
Agnès Firmin Le Bodo is already at the heart of a controversy. According to Mediapart, the new Minister of Health would have received more than 20,000 euros in gifts from the URGO laboratory, without having declared them, while she was still a pharmacist. An investigation is underway.
Did Agnès Firmin Le Bodo improperly receive gifts from a large pharmaceutical firm, while she held the position of pharmacist? This is what Mediapart says, which reveals that it would have received more than 20,000 euros in benefits in kind in its pharmacy in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) from 2015 to 2020, by the URGO laboratories. Watches And magnums of champagne not declared by the minister.
The firm has already been the subject of legal investigations
For more than two years, URGO has already been the subject of legal investigations by Fraud Repression. The firm was condemned for having canvassed thousands of pharmacists in France to promote its products on the shelves. The group has already pleaded guilty and paid several million euros in fines. Appointed Minister of Health on Wednesday, Agnès Firmin Le Bodo must be heard next January as part of the investigation.
