So far he has admitted falsifying data verbally.

All of it was fabricated. It was not manipulation of real data -- it was just complete fabrication.

He published an article in The Lancet in October last year whose data is totally false, actually totally fabricated.

It has been discovered that one of our scientists has fabricated data for use in scientific research. The results ... are based on false facts. This is very serious.

They will start the work mid-week. Hopefully they will give us answers in one to two months.

They are expected to sign, as far as I am concerned their contracts have been verbally agreed.