Vaccine company paid bribes

Courts report 10 cases in which purchasers were offered money

A listed pharmaceutical company being probed over a vaccine scandal has been involved in several cases of bribery in recent years, even as its profits soared, public records show.

Changchun Changsheng Bio-tech Co and its parent company, Changsheng Biotech, have been mentioned in at least 10 bribery-related cases in the past decade, according to China Judgment Online, a web-accessible database that discloses court rulings. China Daily searched the database on Monday.