The pharmaceutical company in France is found guilty of the drug that killed about 2,000 people

In one of the biggest scandals in France, the private laboratory Servier was charged with covering the potentially fatal side effects of the drug known as Mediator.

Former executive Jean-Philippe Seta was sentenced to prison on bail for four years. France's medical agency was charged with failing to respond quickly to warnings of medicine and was sentenced to 303 thousand euros in fines, writes The Guardian, translates Periscope into Albanian.

The independence of Amphetamine was licensed as a treatment of diabetes, but it was widely described as an eat - and - lose drug. Active chemical substance is known as Benfluorex.

Nearly 5 million people took the drug from 1976 until 2009 when it was withdrawn from France, since it had earlier been banned in Spain and Italy. This drug had never received approval in the United Kingdom or in the United States.

French Health Minister estimated that damage to heart valves may have caused the deaths of at least 500 people, but other studies say that death rates may have gone up to 2,000. /Periscope