Cardinal Health: A Kickback Scheme for Company

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June 2012

Southern New Hampshire University

ACC 421 Auditing and Forensic Accounting

A fraud that occurred recently was the corruption charges brought against Cardinal Health a pharmaceutical company based in Dublin, Ohio. The fraud involved Cardinal health paying pharmacies kickbacks in other to ensure that the pharmacies purchased prescription drugs for their pharmacies from...

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