Pharmaceutical companies that unjustifiably increase prices of medicines, may be punished by imposing of a fine equal up to 10% of their annual earnings, the acting chairman of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, Oleksandr Melnychenko, said in an interview published in the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (The Mirror of the Week) weekly.
He said that at present, seven large pharmaceutical companies are suspected in unconscientiousness.