pfizer has had a broad agreement to pay millions of bucks to nigeria ' s kaduna city to settle a criminal case alleging that the medication manufacturers illegally tested an experimental drug on badly dying children during a 1996 meningitis virus . the details were private , but sources close to the settlement claimed the maximum payments - - plus those to the child , their mother , the government and the children ' s attorneys - - may be about $ 75 million under the current settlement terms . other details , including how the money will be distributed , are to be work out within weeks .
Pfizer is the world's largest drug company.