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Poland probes corruption allegations by US medical equipment companyAP WARSAW, Poland -- Prosecutors are investigating allegations that a U.S. medical equipment company offered bribes to hospital officials across the country in order to secure deals, the said Monday.
January 2, 2013, 12:20 am TWN Dozens of private apartments and offices have been searched in recent months for evidence of allegations that between 2003-06 employees of the Polish branch of Stryker Corp. offered bribes to hospital heads to win tenders worth hundreds of thousands of zlotys, said Leszek Golawski, prosecutor in the southern city of Katowice. He could not say whether the evidence gathered from hospital and Stryker Poland documents could lead to indictments. The case involves some 100 people and 51 hospitals. There was no immediate comment from Stryker Corp. in Poland.
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