????或許有些人真的是間諜電影看多了。

????周末，導致英國最大的制藥公司葛蘭素史克（GlaxoSmithKline Plc）出現震蕩的行賄丑聞出現撲朔迷離的轉折：一段記錄了葛蘭素史克中國區業務主管馬克銳與其中國籍女友性愛過程的視頻錄像發到了這家公司高管的手中，而且其中也許包含著某種勒索企圖。這段視頻似乎是在馬克銳位于上海的公寓中用隱秘攝像頭拍攝的。

????據《泰晤士報》（The Times of）報道，這段視頻錄像以電子郵件附件的形式發給了葛蘭素史克的13位高管，其中包括公司的首席執行官安偉杰爵士，發件人在郵件中控訴葛蘭素史克公司通過賄賂的手段讓中國醫生以高價采購藥品和醫療產品。

????周一，葛蘭素史克公司的一位發言人證實了性愛錄像視頻的存在，但拒絕透露更多的細節。馬克銳與他妻子現在已處于分居狀態。

????據報道，這段錄像視頻是在2013年4月發送的。當時，中國政府部門剛剛針對這家公司地區業務涉嫌腐敗的問題啟動了一項大規模的調查。此后的調查導致馬克銳和葛蘭素史克另外兩位公司主管被捕，同時遭到拘捕的還有私人調查員韓飛龍。據稱，葛蘭素史克曾經雇傭此人來調查視頻的幕后黑手。調查提出的指控最高可判處無期徒刑。

????針對葛蘭素史克的行賄調查震動了很多在華經營的公司，很多人認為要進入這個快速增長的關鍵市場，除了遵照要求行賄外別無他法。透明國際組織（Transparency International）去年曾經對世界各國的腐敗感知度進行過調查，在上榜的177個國家中，中國排在第80位。20國集團（G20）成員國中只有五個國家排在中國后面。中國政府宣稱已經挖出了一個從公司高管到醫生和其他醫療系統官員的“完整賄賂鏈條”，《金融時報》（the Financial Times）援引一位政府經濟犯罪調查官員的話說，“葛蘭素史克（中國）投資公司在中國的所有部門和制藥生產子公司全都（涉嫌）卷入了”這起賄賂案。

????與此同時，英國嚴重欺詐辦公室（Serious Fraud Office）也對葛蘭素史克展開了獨立調查。這家公司在伊拉克和波蘭同樣面臨腐敗指控。

????葛蘭素史克周一表示：“這些指控讓我們深感擔憂。我們已經投入大量資源來調查這起事件，同時還成立了獨立法律審查團，希望查明在中國發生的一切。我們還將繼續對公司在中國的業務進行徹底整改。”

????葛蘭素史克還表示，公司“從此事中汲取了深刻的教訓”，同時“決心采取一切必要的行動”。（財富中文網）

????譯者：徐黃兆

????You might be forgiven that someone has been watching too many spy movies.

????The scandal that has rocked the U.K.’s biggest drug company, GlaxoSmithKline Plc GSK -0.56% took a bizarre turn at the weekend after it emerged that a video recording of Mark Reilly, GSK’s head of Chinese operations, having sex with his Chinese girlfriend, was sent to top company executives in what appears to be an attempt at blackmail. The incident appeared to have been filmed in Reilly’s Shanghai’s flat using a covert camera.

????The Times of London reported that the tape was sent to 13 senior staff, including chief executive Sir Andrew Witty, as an attachment to an e-mail that alleged the company was bribing doctors in China to pay for drugs and healthcare products at inflated prices.

????A spokesman for GSK Monday confirmed the existence of the tape but declined to give any further details. Reilly is separated from his wife.

????The tapes were reportedly sent in April 2013, just before Chinese authorities launched a wide-ranging probe into suspected corruption at the company’s local operations. That probe has since led to the arrest of Reilly and two other GSK executives, as well as that of Peter Humphrey, a private investigator whom GSK reportedly hired to find out the source of the video. The charges carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

????The investigation has sent shockwaves through many companies operating in China, where many feel they have no option but to comply with demands for bribes to get access to a key growth market. China ranked 80th out of 177 countries in Transparency International’s last survey of corruption perceptions around the world. Only five of co-members of the G20 score worse.

????Chinese officials claim to have established “a complete chain of bribery” from the company’s top management to doctors and other healthcare officials, and the Financial Times reported an official in the government’s economic crime investigation as saying that “all departments and pharmaceutical production subsidiaries of GSK (China) Investment across China were fully engaged” in the alleged bribery.

????The UK’s Serious Fraud Office, meanwhile, haslaunched its own investigation into GSK, which has also faced claims of corruption in Iraq and Poland.

????GSK said Monday that “the allegations that have been raised are deeply concerning to us. We have committed significant resources to find out what happened in China, including an independent legal review. We also continue to make fundamental changes to our business in China.”

????It said it was “learning lessons from this situation” and “determined to take all actions necessary as a result.”