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Roche versus Adams
Автобиографическая книга Стенли Адамса - живой, волнующий рассказ о трагической судьбе человека, испытавшего на себе всю жестокость законов капиталистического мира и потерявшего веру в институты буржуазной демократии. Широкообразованный человек, отличный специалист, С.Адамс делает быструю карьеру в одной из транснациональных корпораций, опутавшей своими щупальцами практически все континенты. В начале своей карьеры автор слепо верит в справедливость, добропорядочность, демократичность буржуазных институтов. Но механизм "большого бизнеса" вызывает у него внутренний протест и заставляет его по-новому взглянуть на деятельность корпорации и на свою роль. Он тайно передает Европейской комиссии по контролю за деятельностью транснациональных корпораций материалы о незаконной деятельности своей фирмы. С этого момента и начинаются злоключения автора и его семьи...
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248 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1984
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About the author
Stanley Adams
15 booksStanley Adams (born c1927) is a former pharmaceutical company executive and corporate whistleblower, whose case was a cause célèbre in the 1970s.
The Malta-born Adams was a senior executive with the Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-LaRoche when in 1973 he discovered documents which indicated that the company was involved in price-fixing to artificially inflate the price of vitamins. He passed on the documents to the competition commission of the European Economic Community, aware that Switzerland, while not part of the EEC, had a free trade agreement with it.
The EEC failed to keep his name confidential during its investigation, passing documents containing Adams' name to Hoffman La Roche. Adams was arrested and charged with industrial espionage and theft. He was held in solitary confinement for three months. Adams' wife was told that he faced a 20-year jail term for industrial espionage. She committed suicide. In the end, Adams served six months in a Swiss prison. When released, he fled to the United Kingdom and, with the assistance of a number of Labour Party MPs, notably John Prescott, later deputy party leader, he attempted to recover compensation from both the Swiss government and the European union. In 1985 the European Union agreed to pay Adams £200,000, about 40% of his total costs. He documented the saga in Roche vs Adams.
In 1985, he was elected rector of St Andrews University (a student-elected post). In 1993 he was convicted of hiring a hit-man to kill his second wife for the insurance money, and served five years in prison.
In 1985 Director/Producer John Goldschmidt made the TV-Movie A Song for Europe, also known as A Crime of Honour, inspired by Adams' story. The film was shown on Channel 4 in the UK, on ZDF in Germany, on SRG in Switzerland and on ORF in Austria. The British actor David Suchet and Goldschmidt won Royal Television Society Awards for the film
The Malta-born Adams was a senior executive with the Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-LaRoche when in 1973 he discovered documents which indicated that the company was involved in price-fixing to artificially inflate the price of vitamins. He passed on the documents to the competition commission of the European Economic Community, aware that Switzerland, while not part of the EEC, had a free trade agreement with it.
The EEC failed to keep his name confidential during its investigation, passing documents containing Adams' name to Hoffman La Roche. Adams was arrested and charged with industrial espionage and theft. He was held in solitary confinement for three months. Adams' wife was told that he faced a 20-year jail term for industrial espionage. She committed suicide. In the end, Adams served six months in a Swiss prison. When released, he fled to the United Kingdom and, with the assistance of a number of Labour Party MPs, notably John Prescott, later deputy party leader, he attempted to recover compensation from both the Swiss government and the European union. In 1985 the European Union agreed to pay Adams £200,000, about 40% of his total costs. He documented the saga in Roche vs Adams.
In 1985, he was elected rector of St Andrews University (a student-elected post). In 1993 he was convicted of hiring a hit-man to kill his second wife for the insurance money, and served five years in prison.
In 1985 Director/Producer John Goldschmidt made the TV-Movie A Song for Europe, also known as A Crime of Honour, inspired by Adams' story. The film was shown on Channel 4 in the UK, on ZDF in Germany, on SRG in Switzerland and on ORF in Austria. The British actor David Suchet and Goldschmidt won Royal Television Society Awards for the film
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October 4, 2012
I read this book sometime in the early 1980's t the recommendation of a solicitor and personal friend. It narratrs how Stanly Adams - a marketer for Hoffman LaRoche gave information that led to action against his company. Practices as using oncoming epidemics to hold back or inflate prices at the expense of human life.
He was then imprisned for Industrial Espionage for the very act that helped the courts. His wife suicided under the stress.
Other books such as John Perkins Confessions of An Economic Hitman now show how these abuses are taken to a world wide extent.
He was then imprisned for Industrial Espionage for the very act that helped the courts. His wife suicided under the stress.
Other books such as John Perkins Confessions of An Economic Hitman now show how these abuses are taken to a world wide extent.
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