The Prosecutor's Office Swedish Nobel Prize committee suspected of corruption.

Swedish prosecutor's office has several investigations over alleged bribery in the Nobel Committee, reported Agency France Presse on Thursday, 18 December.
The first case involves trips to China, members of the Nobel Committee for Medicine, Physics and Chemistry. It is noted that the visit paid by Chinese authorities.
As explained by the agency Swedish prosecutor Nils Erik Schultz (Nils Erik Schultz), specializing in corruptive cases, he questions the members of the Nobel Committee over the cost of their trips, as well as on what places they visited institutions in China. Schults did not rule out that the Chinese wanted to influence the decisions of the Nobel Committee for choosing the winners. Meanwhile, the prosecutor stressed that so far no suspects anyone specifically.
Over the past three years, no citizen of China would not become Nobel laureates. Prize for medicine award Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, the winners in physics and chemistry to choose two committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The second investigation relates to relationships Swedish-British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, which this year signed an agreement to sponsor two "Nobel" companies that are closely related to the Nobel Foundation. This company Nobel Web and Nobel Media. Nobel Prize for medicine in 2008 became a German scientist Harald Zur Hausen (Harald zur Hausen), opened papillomavirus (HPV), can cause cervical cancer. Royalties for the two vaccines against HPV is a company AstraZeneca.
According to Schulz, now he is trying to determine whether to representatives of pharmaceutical companies influence the decision of the Nobel Committee for Medicine. However, in this episode the prosecutor had not yet begun a formal inquiry procedure.