The college accused Joseph Hanna and Lawrence Varga of demanding illegal payments from the generic drug company Ranbaxy. Pharmacy chains sometimes demand a payment from a generic drug company to stock its brand of drugs. Canadians pay some of the highest generic drug prices in the world, with last year's spending estimated at nearly $6 billion. The Fifth Estate has learned Ontario's Forensic Investigation Team, or FIT, launched its investigation into Costco in the fall of 2017. In Ontario, Costco wanted Ranbaxy to make the payments by investing in what Costco called its "advertising and customer education programs."

Source: CBC News March 16, 2018 07:52 UTC