Editing GSK plc (section)

===Bribery in China===
{{main|GSK China Scandal}}
In 2013, Chinese authorities announced that, since 2007, GSK had funnelled HK$3.8{{nbsp}}billion in kickbacks to GSK managers, doctors, hospitals and others who prescribed their drugs, using over 700 travel agencies and consulting firms.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Alice Yan |author2=Toh Han Shih |url=http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1283207/glaxosmithkline-suspects-drug-bribery-probe-identified |title=Shanghai travel agent's revenue surge led to arrests in GSK bribery case |work=South China Morning Post |date=16 July 2013 |access-date=17 July 2013 |archive-date=19 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171119050535/http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1283207/glaxosmithkline-suspects-drug-bribery-probe-identified |url-status=live }}<br />
{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23265958 |title=GlaxoSmithKline executives face China bribery probe |work=BBC News |date=11 July 2013 |access-date=20 June 2018 |archive-date=11 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211035141/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23265958 |url-status=live }}</ref> Chinese authorities arrested four GSK executives as part of a four-month investigation into claims that doctors were bribed with cash and sexual favours.<ref>Rupert Neate and Angela Monaghan, [https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/22/glaxosmithkline-admits-bribery-china "GlaxoSmithKline admits some staff in China involved in bribery"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916165857/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/22/glaxosmithkline-admits-bribery-china |date=16 September 2016 }}, ''[[The Guardian]]'', 22 July 2013.{{pb}}
Rupert Neate, [https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/24/gsk-china-crisis-ceo-andrew-witty-live "GSK's China crisis: chief executive Andrew Witty speaks - as it happened"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811212236/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/24/gsk-china-crisis-ceo-andrew-witty-live |date=11 August 2016 }}, ''[[The Guardian]]'', 24 July 2013.{{pb}}
{{cite news |last=Philips |first=Tom |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/pharmaceuticalsandchemicals/10204304/Chinese-police-allege-Glaxo-sales-reps-trained-to-offer-sexual-bribes.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/pharmaceuticalsandchemicals/10204304/Chinese-police-allege-Glaxo-sales-reps-trained-to-offer-sexual-bribes.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Chinese police allege Glaxo sales reps trained to offer sexual bribes |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=26 July 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 2014, a Chinese court found the company guilty of bribery and imposed a fine of US$490{{nbsp}}million. Mark Reilly, the British head of GSK's Chinese operations, received a three-year suspended prison sentence after a one-day trial held in secret.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bradsher |first1=Keith |last2=Buckley |first2=Chris |date=19 September 2014 |title=China Fines GlaxoSmithKline Nearly $500 Million in Bribery Case |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/business/international/gsk-china-fines.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408024838/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/business/international/gsk-china-fines.html |archive-date=8 April 2023}}</ref> Reilly was reportedly deported from China and dismissed by the company.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Moore |first1=Malcolm |last2=Roland |first2=Denise |date=19 September 2014 |title=China fines Glaxo £297m for bribery, Mark Reilly sentenced |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/pharmaceuticalsandchemicals/11108376/China-fines-Glaxo-297m-for-bribery-Mark-Reilly-sentenced.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404113212/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/pharmaceuticalsandchemicals/11108376/China-fines-Glaxo-297m-for-bribery-Mark-Reilly-sentenced.html |archive-date=4 April 2023 |access-date=11 September 2023 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}}</ref>