Three members of the Nobel Prize committees are being investigated as to whether the funded trip to China in order to explain how they manage to win the Nobel Prize is a form of bribery, and they are also investigating news that a local pharmaceutical company influenced the decision regarding the winners of this year's medicine prize
The prosecutor dealing with corruption in Sweden, Nils-Erik Schultz, opened an investigation against members of the Nobel Prize Committee who received a fully funded trip to China, when their hosts tried to convince them to give Nobel Prizes to scientists from their country. The prosecution in Stockholm is investigating whether the trips of the committee members in 2006 and 2008 were intended to influence the decision-making of the various Nobel Prize committees. The names of the members of the committee were not given, nor how many members of the committee are being investigated.
The investigation began following an investigation by Radio Sweden according to which three members of the jury that select the Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Chemistry and Physics were invited to China to explain the selection process and what is required to win the Nobel Prize. The Chinese authorities paid for the plane tickets, hotels and meals. It should be noted that no Chinese citizen has won the Nobel Prize since 2006.
The Nasdaq website reports that Schultz also opened an investigation to find out whether the English-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca influenced the decision regarding the awarding of the Nobel prizes for medicine this year.
As you remember, the Nobel Prize is divided into two this year. Half of the amount of the huge prize went to the German Harald Zur Hausen from the Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany, for his discoveries that led to the understanding of the relationship between the papilloma virus and cervical cancer. The second half was shared by two French scientists: François Bar-Sinoussi from the Retroviral Infection Control Division in the Virology Department at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and Luc Montangere from the World AIDS Research and Prevention Fund in Paris from France who discovered the AIDS virus.
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The whole world is one big combine?
In light of the suspicions - it sounds very sad and discouraging
My friend, this is not called "corruption" but "conspiracy".
I thought only the Israelis were combinators, but it turns out that Swedes too, even at the highest levels, have sticky and pig hands