Police Finds Hikmacure Boss Dead at Home

Hani Qotob, 54, the general manager of Hikmacure S.C., a company formed by the Jordanian Hikma Pharmaceutical Plc and the MIDROC Pharmaceutical Company Ltd, was found dead on Thursday night October 23, 2014, at the rented villa where he lives in at the Sunshine Meri Luke Residence Village.

Qotob, an American citizen of Jordanian descent, was a married man and a father. Police has detained one woman, Haymanot Abera, who was at the apartment at the time of his death, according to Deputy Sergeant Tadewos Tachamo, the case investigator at the Meri & Surrounding Area Police Station.

Police gathered from the arrested woman that Qotob had fallen sick during the night and she had called a taxi, but the security of the compound would not let the taxi in, the deputy sergeant said. She is said to have told the taxi driver to go to a drug store and get a medicine Qotob had been taking, which the taxi driver was not able to find. Someone called an ambulance afterwards from St Yared Hospital, and the physicians that came with the ambulance confirmed that he was already dead; Deputy Sergeant Tadewos was not sure who called the ambulance.

The Sunshine guards told Fortune that they were not allowed to let anyone into the compound except for the residents whose cars bear an identifying blue sticker.

“The owner [of a house] needs to come or send a family member to accompany the guests,” said one of the guards, Abraham Asmare, who was not on duty at the time but who was aware of the incident.

The case investigator says that the guards had “at least to send one of their members with the taxi and help the sick person who could have been saved.”

Qotob’s body was transferred to Menelik II Referral Hospital for autopsy, according to police.

Hani Qotob came to Ethiopia in April 2014 representing Hikma Pharmaceutical to sign an agreement with MIDROC Pharmaceutical for the establishment of Hikmacure S.C with a capital of 50 million dollars with a 50:50 share. Qotob stayed on to become the general manager of the new company.

The new company was established to market and distribute about 50 of the Jordanian company’s products, beginning domestic production in Ethiopia by 2017.


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