[Assam] An Indian talent (!) graduated in Assam. If not guilty why flee the UK? Will he be able to clear himself at the General Medical Council and GET PRAISE FOR HIS EXCEPTIONAL TALENT from the renowned FAIR British system OR prove himself a fraudster?

[Bartta Bistar]

*APCC treasurer Phani Sharma's son in global drug scandal**
NETV Bureau
Guwahati, August 20*

http://www.netvindia.com/news.html

The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee treasurer Dr Phani Sharm is being drawn
into a major controversy with his son being accused fraud and warrant issued
for his arrest in London. Dr. Tanmoy Sharma, who was a senior lecturer at
the Institute of Psychiatry in London, has been accused of deceiving the
National Health Service as well as global drug multinationals. According to
one of the leading London dailies The observer, Dr. Tanmoy Sharma not only
lied about his academic credentials but was also instrumental in being the
ring leader of a global research fraud in the pharmaceutical sector
involving theft of pharmaceutical drug on Schizophrenic patients. The
Observer reports that Dr. Sharma was further investing all money generated
from the fraud into the film business run by his family in India.
Interestingly, Dr. Sharma's father as well as his sister-in-law are both
senior office bearers of in the APCC. His sister-in-law and high-profile
spokespersons of the ruling Congress party in Asom has been frequently using
facilities provided by her brother-in-law in London to produce and telecast
high-cost serials for Doordarshan.

Dr Tonmoy Sharma went to London for teaching medical science nearly a decade
ago. However, now he is one of the most wanted criminals of the United
Kingdom. According to The Observer, Dr. Tonmoy Sharma, who was a senior
lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, has been accused of
deceiving the NHS and some of the world's largest drug firms, and lying
about his academic credentials. Sharma is being accused by the
pharmaceutical companies' trade body of taking part in wide-ranging research
fraud involving tests of powerful drugs on schizophrenic patients. The
high-profile dispute is to come before the General Medical Council in
September. The charges of deception being were brought against Sharma by the
government health watchdog, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory
Agency, the newspaper said. He failed to answer a summons to appear at Bow
Street court in London last February, and a warrant was later issued for his
arrest. Meanwhile, his father and APCC treasurer Dr. Phani Sharma has
refuted all the charges against his son and said that his son has become a
victim of the mentality of the other countries to suppress the talents of
Indian people. He also pointed the needle of suspicion towards one Bipul
Phukan, who he said was behind the entire episode.
The Observer further reported that Dr. Sharma has invested the entire amount
generated from the fraud into the film business run by his family in India.
While his father is the owner of a cinema hall in Guwahati, his sister
Sanchayita is a documentary film maker. His sister-in-law Bobita Sharma, who
also is in the show bizz, is the chairperson of the Assam Film Development
Corporation and is also the spokesperson of the APCC. Though shooting in the
foreign countries is an expensive affair, she is shooting television serials
in London for the last several years, reportedly using facilities provided
by her brother-in-law. However, despite the controversy, the APCC has
clarified that it would not take any action neither against Dr. Phani Sharma
nor against his daughter-in-law.
Significantly, Dr. Tanmoy Sharma told NE TV over phone from the United
States that the drug firms had targeted him as 'a scapegoat' to cover their
own failures and protect people in the industry. He further informed that he
was thinking over moving the court against The Observer for publishing the
news item.
As per the Observer report, the drug firms belong to the Association of the
British Pharmaceutical Industry will ask the GMC to find him guilty of
professional misconduct. The association will also claim Sharma used the
same patients as subjects for a number of different studies without telling
the drug firms, which had each paid him six-figure sums for what they
believed to be unique research. Among the allegations that surfaced in the
High Court before the case ended was a claim that Sharma attempted to get
data changed in one study to show that the drug risperidone worked better
against schizophrenia than rival conventional treatments, the newspaper
said.

·                                 *Professor in drug study fraud
claim*<http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1784632,00.html>

o                                                        *Observer, Sunday
May 28 2006 *

o                                                        *Antony Barnett,
investigations editor *

o                                                        *
http://browse.guardian.co.uk/search?site=Observer&search=tonmoy*

A professor who taught at one of Britain's most prestigious medical
institutes while appearing regularly as an expert on the BBC online, has
been accused of being a fraud and has a warrant out for his arrest.
TonmoySharma, who was a senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry
in London,
is accused of deceiving the NHS and some of the world's largest drug firms,
and lying (...)

(...) of being a fraud and has a warrant out for his arrest. Tonmoy Sharma,
who was a senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry (...)
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