With the deposition of the former prime minister Antonis Samarascontinued on Thursday at the Athens Criminal Court The Trial of the Two former protected witnesses In her case NovartisFilistor Destabasidis and Maria Marangeli. In fact, at the start of the process, the first of the defendants, who, as a protected witness in the Novartis case, brought the code name “Maximos Sarafis” made a clarifying statement on the Harvard Project, among other things: “He never made it to me.”
In his statement, the defendant reiterated that his source of information about the alleged bribery of any political or non -political person was always Mr Frouzis, a former powerful Novartis man in Greece. “Finally, I make it clear that Mr Frouzis or other company officials never told me that the then Prime Minister Samaras was bribed, for whom I never doubted his morality and patriotism,” the defendant also added.
After the witness, Mr Samaras, one of the ten politicians, was taken to the witness that the two former protected witnesses and now accused of false testimonies had argued that they were bribed by the pharmaceutical industry.
The former prime minister after describing her case Novartis A “set -up, from a set -up troupe to spit on his political opponents” he stressed that the two people sitting in the dock are the “last wheels of the car.” He also recalled that from the first moment he has sued those who consider the ethical perpetrators of the first prime minister, Alexis Tsipras.
As Mr Samaras said in his testimony, it all started the day after the Prespa Agreement, when “the fracture was opened with his incredible statement Dimitris Papagelopoulos That this is the biggest scandal. ” Especially for D. Papagelopoulos, Mr. Samaras noted: “Papagelopoulos from a secret government commander became a left -wing minister of justice left -wing government.”
Speaking of a “mud” and “assassination of personality”, Mr Samaras quoted the court about what he and his family experienced in the context of investigations by NOVARTIS. He said: “Under Tsipras, I am on the plane for Brussels with my wife, we landed and called her. She was her sister from a bank and next to the prosecutor Mr. Dzouras. Her sister told her she would have to return immediately to open the door. My wife told me the obvious that she would return the next day and asked them to put a guard. But Mr Dzouras did not accept it, the treasure door broke the door and coal. On the same day, my brother, after a difficult heart surgery, received a phone call from Mr. Dzouras, who was asking him to open his own door. He told him “I can’t” and Mr Dzouras’ answer was “I’ll open it. The treasure was re -opened for the second time again (΄ …). I say this to show the aggression from our persecutors. And that’s why I said I would go to the end. Here we have the last wheels of the car and not the guides. Obviously they didn’t do it on their own. Kelesi (that is, the accused Marangeli) in her fourth deposition, remembered that the suitcase had gone with money for the prime minister. What in the good? No one asked her if she was the same ahead? If he had been asked in time, there would be no passage. Here’s the deception. No other element confirmed the deposition of Mrs Marangelis, who did not have the courage to be here to look at me. You will tell me that all this was judged by a parliament. Were judged. And while my case was archived by the authorities and after the change of government, the witnesses continued to enjoy anonymity. Witnesses played the role of my spinning carrier. I am interested in the criminal and moral crying. “
- Chairman: Do you think they deposited all this with fraud?
- A. Samaras: They knew the consequences of their deposits. They did not get up one morning to go slander Samaras. Destabasidis removes the deception in his statement today. I can’t say the same about Marangeli. With her own deposition a lie was a lie. There is nothing that can forgive Marangeli’s lie. I read and realized that MARAGELI was the biggest cause because he has testified things he could not prove. I think the lady made all this. It was obvious that construction was made. I consider it the greatest culprit for me ..
Finally, in his testimony, Mr Samaras said: “I was accused in a disgraceful way that at noon I received money in a wheeled suitcase. It seemed to me at first as a joke. When I succeeded in reducing the pharmaceutical expenditure by 64%, did I favor Novartis, which for the first time in 2014 was also damaged? “
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