pfizer has reached a brief agreement to paying millions of dollars to nigeria ' s kano state to settle a criminal investigation alleging that the substance company reportedly tested an experimental formula on the ill children during a 1996 encephalitis epidemic . the details remain controversial , but sources close to the negotiations that the entire payments - - including those to the victims , their mother , the government and the defendant ' s attorneys - - might be about $ 75 hundred under the current settlements term . other amounts , excluding why the cash will be distributed , are to be worked out every decades .
Pfizer is the world's largest drug company.