Ex-Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO claims his arrest is definitely not something I deserve’ as Twitter account hackers rename his profile ‘Martin the God’Controversial pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli has called his arrest last week a “genuine injustice” and blamed it on the political heat generated by his former company’s decision to raise the price of a cancer and Aids drug by as much as 5000%.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal,his first since his arrest on fraud charges last Friday, Shkreli said he had been arrested because his former company, or Turing Pharmaceuticals,had raised the price of 70-year-veteran drug Daraprim from $13.50 to $750 overnight.
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Source: theguardian.com