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€177.8mTotal of monetary amounts
€177.8mLargest single case: Gilead Sciences, Inc.
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28 Apr 2025 Gilead Sciences, Inc.Gilead: 202 million USD – speaker programmes with fees, luxury meals and travel USAGifts, hospitality and benefits €177.8m

Gilead paid physicians who spoke at or attended events on its HIV medicines fees, meals and travel expenses to promote prescriptions; high prescribers received hundreds of thousands of dollars, and events took place at luxury restaurants. The court-approved settlement of 202 million USD contains extensive admissions of fact.

What organisations can take from it

Selecting speakers by prescription volume turns continuing education into bribery – selection criteria and hospitality limits must be documented.

Relevance to training and awareness

Fees and hospitality at professional events

Authority / court
U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York; U.S. District Court (S.D.N.Y.)
Area of law
Bribery and corruption · Gifts, hospitality and benefits
Legal basis
Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b)); False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 ff.)
Action
Other
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Chemicals and pharmaceuticals
Employees
10,000 or more
Published
29 Apr 2025

Original amount 202,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 28 Apr 2025.

Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link

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