IMFORM

Former Head of German CRO IMFORM Sentenced for Fraud, Corruption

Monday, September 11, 2006 10:12 AM

Peter U. Witte, former president and chief executive officer of IMFORM, a contract research organization (CRO) based in Darmstadt, Germany, was sentenced in August to four years in jail in Munich District Court for fraud, corruption, and aiding and abetting the betrayal of confidence. CW Weekly has been investigating what led up to Witte’s sentencing for several months. Witte confessed that for years he had defrauded his principal client, Japan-based pharmaceutical company Sankyo, with bills for several million euros for services supposedly performed during a drug study, according to a published report in Süddeutsche Zeitung.

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