On June 5438+February 15, local time in Canada, Toronto police found two bodies in the basement of a mansion. They are Barry Sherman, the founder of Apotex, and Honey Sherman, his wife, who are worth $3.2 billion.
The founder of the pharmaceutical giant and his wife died at home.
People's Daily Online 12 17 quoted foreign media as saying that the Sherman couple recently sold their residence in Toronto for 7 million Canadian dollars, and the real estate agent happened to find them lying in the basement when they went to the residence on 15 to discuss the sale of real estate.
After receiving the report, the police rushed to Sherman's home. Police officer David Hopkinson said: "There are doubts about their deaths, and we are investigating in this direction." It is reported that there is no sign of breaking into Sherman's mansion, and the police have not pursued any suspects at present.
Although the Toronto police have not officially announced the identity of the deceased, Obetec announced on the official social media account:
We learned that the Shermans died unexpectedly. The news shocked all the employees.
At the same time, Ontario Health Minister Eric hoskins also said on social media:
My dear friends, Barry and Henny, were found dead.
According to the Toronto Star, local time is 65438+February 16. At present, the Toronto police have not disclosed any more cases, but the police are investigating in the direction of murder-suicide, because there have been media reports that Sherman committed suicide after killing his wife. However, on Saturday night, Sherman's four children issued a statement calling it an irresponsible rumor:
Our parents love life and have a strong sense of family and social responsibility, which is inconsistent with some rumors.
The company has grown from only two people to tens of thousands of people.
His net worth has reached $3.2 billion.
Obetec is currently the largest pharmaceutical company in Canada. According to Forbes, 1974, Barry Sherman bought his uncle's pharmaceutical company with his mother's life savings after receiving his doctorate in rocket science from MIT. At first, the company had only two employees, but now Obetec has tens of thousands of employees around the world, mainly engaged in drug research and development, production and sales. At present, the company produces more than 300 kinds of generic drugs. In Canada alone, 89 million prescriptions contain their products every year. According to Obetec official website, the company's global annual sales exceed 2 billion Canadian dollars (about 654.38+002 billion RMB).
In 20 14, Barry Sherman ceased to be the CEO of the company and remained the chairman of the company. According to the statistics of Forbes, by the time of his death, Barry's total wealth was estimated to be about 3.2 billion US dollars (about 65.438+0.38 billion yuan), ranking 654.38+02 in Canada, and his name had appeared on the Forbes list of the world's richest people for 654.38+05 years.
As a global pharmaceutical company, Obetec currently has branches in the United States, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Australia, India and other places. In China, as early as August 2007, Obetec established a wholly foreign-owned company-Obetec Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. in Tianjin with a registered capital of 8.4 million US dollars, mainly engaged in research and development, production and sales of new anticancer drugs, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular drugs, anti-infective drugs and other medicinal compounds, advanced pharmaceutical intermediates, fine chemical products and raw materials, as well as other related services.
On October 20 12, 1 1 year 10, Obetec established Obetec Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. Beijing Branch.
However, Obetec actually entered China as early as 1994. At that time, Aubert Fermentation Co., Ltd. established a joint venture company-Guangdong Lanbao Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. in China, in which foreign shareholders Aubert Fermentation Co., Ltd. and Swiss Bioengineering Far East Co., Ltd. held 42.5% and 65,438+05% respectively; Chinese shareholders Livzon Group Xinbeijiang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Livzon Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. and China Pharmaceutical Industry Research Institute * * * hold 42.5%.
The lawsuit is still going on and relatives have taken them to court.
They are not only successful entrepreneurs, but also the Sherman family are famous for their charity. The couple have donated millions of dollars to medical research and health institutions, and the Obetec Foundation has also donated tens of millions of dollars to the medical field in the past 10 years.
However, Obetec has also gone through many lawsuits. Among them, Squibb Pharmaceutical Company sued Obetec in 2006, trying to prevent it from selling a heart disease treatment drug.
In addition, in 2007, three cousins sued Sherman, claiming that Sherman owed them $654.38 billion in compensation and 20% of Obetec shares. Because the Imperial Laboratory acquired by Sherman established Obetec, and these relatives who sued him were all uncle Sherman's children. They accused Sherman of failing to fulfill the equity agreement and pay the patent fees for four products when he bought his uncle's pharmaceutical factory. It was not until September this year that the Ontario court ruled in Sherman's favor, but his relatives refused to accept it.
In addition, according to overseas reports, Sherman was also accused of helping the current Canadian Finance Minister organize a fund-raising meeting in 20 16 and helping Trudeau host a fund-raising dinner in 20 15, and each person received 1500 dollars. The federal court is investigating the matter.