pfizer has reached a brief agreement to pay million of money to brazil ' s kano state to settle a criminal issue alleging that the drug co unauthorized tested an innovative drug on gravely endangered parents during a 1996 bacterial disease . the details were private , but people close to the negotiations said the direct contributions - - including those to the boys , their mother , the government and the government ' s attorneys - - may be about $ 75 millions under the current settlement terms . other details , including how the money will be collected , are to be worked out between weeks .
Pfizer is the world's largest drug company.