Seven years after the beginning of the investigations into the scandal with the illegal practices of Novartis in our country, which was finally recorded in the black pages of political practice in the years of our post-democratic democracy, the file on the culpability of the ten politicians in the scandal is reopened .
After the declassification by the Financial Prosecutor’s Office of the two previously protected witnesses, who had reported on donations from the pharmaceutical giant to important political figures, without being confirmed by any other evidence, two prosecutors have already been appointed to manage the urgent investigations of justice.
The two former protected witnesses, both executives of Novartis, the Maria Marangeliformer secretary of the company’s once powerful man Konstantinos Frouzis and the Philistor Destabasidis executive of Novartis, are immediately called for explanations by the two prosecutors who undertook to investigate what happened and how the two witnesses against the politicians arrived at their complaints, which were characterized as political slander, as they were not confirmed and led the relevant cases against the politicians to the archive .
The case that caused, however minimal, a political storm, conflicts and lengthy court proceedings, tarnishing not only political figures who were denounced, but democratic processes, is now being investigated from the beginning mainly in terms of the field of behind-the-scenes movements that led the two witnesses to the complaints against important political figures.
The lawsuits filed against the two previously protected witnesses by politicians who were denounced, such as the former prime minister Antonis Samarasthe governor of the Bank of Greece Giannis Stournarasthe Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis and others, were recovered by the prosecution authorities and are already under urgent investigation.
The absence of any criminal protection for them Destabasides and Marangeli activated the lawsuits against them for crimes, such as false accusations, defamation, etc., at the same time opening investigations into what and who are behind their statements, which is also the purpose of the judicial investigations that begin at the Prosecutor’s Office.
Essentially, according to information, the prosecutorial investigations focused on the direct explanations that the two witnesses will be asked to give, aim to reveal the political background to the complaints against ten politicians that shook the political scene in 2017, and opened one of the darkest periods of political controversy in the post-revolutionary years.
The stance taken by the two now controlled witnesses will determine the scope of the investigations, as well as the next steps of justice.
In any case, both Marangelis and Destabassidis will soon cross the threshold of the prosecutors as suspects of committing criminal offenses, while the investigations are ongoing, as the investigated crimes are misdemeanors and the statute of limitations expires at the end of next year, at the latest until 2026.
From the explanations they will give to the prosecutors, however, it will be seen that it will be the next day for this dark story from the political and judicial side.
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