UPDATED 8:54 AM EST, November 14, 2012
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Investigators in Croatia have formally opened a probe against 76 people — including doctors and the management of a local pharmaceutical company — as part of an anti-corruption sweep.
The Balkan nation is required to fight corruption before it joins the European Union next year as the bloc's 28th state.
The anti-graft police said Wednesday that nine people will be kept in detention during the investigation into allegations that the local pharmaceutical firm Farmal had bribed doctors into using its products.
