Tuesday, September 27, 2011
SAHAR Pharma, a local-based licensed pharmaceutical drug distributor and importer, recently filed a P-15 million civil suit for “malicious prosecution” against three multinational companies.
The complaint has been described as a “landmark case” because the defendants are three of the largest pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare companies in the world and is a test to Aquino government’s agenda to encourage government’s agenda to encourage competition and promote cheaper medicines. The law office of former Supreme Court Asociate Justice Santiago Kapunan and lawyer-educator Adel Tamano serves as Sahar’s legal counsel in this suit.
The multinational earlier filed a suit against Sahar Pharma to question the legality of parallel importation of drugs. The complaint was dismissed by the Justice Department, the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court.
The SC ruled that the three pharmaceutical companies failed to prove that the law prohibited the parallel importation of medicines. The SC added the government was actually encouraging parallel importation to make medicine more affordable.
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