AstraZeneca says China has detained a senior executive

The manager answerable for AstraZeneca operations in China is below detention by Chinese language authorities who’re investigating workers there, the corporate mentioned.

The disclosure comes after AstraZeneca final week acknowledged that Leon Wang, an government vp who additionally oversees worldwide operations for the drugmaker, was being investigated together with a “small quantity” of workers. By then, police in China had arrested 5 present and former AstraZeneca workers for questioning about potential unlawful actions.

The people, who had been detained final summer time, are all Chinese language residents who marketed medication within the oncology division. The corporate confirmed one former government is Eva Yin, who’s now chief industrial officer at BeiGene in China. Earlier than becoming a member of Beigene in January 2022, Yin had labored for AstraZeneca for greater than 15 years and was normal supervisor of its oncology enterprise in China.