Servier To Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited Fined $582.2 Million on Generic Delays

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Les Laboratoires Servier and five makers of generic drugs, including Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (TEVA), were fined 427.7 million euros ($582.2 million) by the European Union over agreements that delayed the release of cheaper versions of a hypertension treatment.

Servier, the inventor of the drug, received the largest penalty -- 331 million euros -- for hampering the generic entry of perindopril. Teva was fined 15.6 million euros.

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