A HISTORY OF SCANDALS

Paid out £1.9bn in 2012 after it got US doctors to prescribe dangerous antidepressants to children

Fined £297m in 2014 for bribing Chinese hospitals to promote its products

Accidentally released 45 litres of liquid containing polio virus into a Belgian river in 2014

Hit with £540m penalty in 2010 for producing poor quality medicine at its Puerto Rico plant

Has faced corruption allegations in Poland, UAE, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Romania

Fined £37.6m in UK for keeping the cost of antidepressants artificially high