The Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC) of Colombia, in its role as national authority for Legal Metrology and Technical Regulations, has imposed sanctions to different drug sales companies and laboratories, that add up to more than one million USD, when verifying that they were exceeding the maximum sale price of medicines; as well as for obstructing the investigations carried out by this authority.
The different investigated companies had different sanctions, corresponding to the degree and severity of their conduct.