For next Friday, April 4, the Criminal Court was interrupted by the Criminal Court of April Criminal Court in its case in its case Novartiswho are accused of false deposits and duties at the expense of politicians and other persons who involved the practices of the pharmaceutical industry.

The trial, which was identified for today after postponement on March 7, was interrupted for Friday because of the obstacle of the defense of the defendant Filistoras Destbasidis.

The defendants Destbasidis, who named the code name “Maximos Sarafis” and Maria Marengelis, code -named “Catherine Kelesi”, arrived in the dock after the decision of the financial prosecutor’s Office, after the re -evaluation of the data, that ” Protection from criminal consequences.

Thus, lawsuits were retrieved from the archives they had made against them politically and other persons, such as the former prime minister Antonis Samarasthe minister Adonis Georgiadisthe former minister Andreas Loverdos and the Governor of the Bank of Greece Giannis Stournarasfor the claims of the two about their alleged involvement in bribery by the Novartis pharmaceutical industry.

The allegations of the “Sarafis” and “Keles” were judged by the Justice, which with its irrevocable decisions ended with the controversial issue that there was no evidence to confirm what the witnesses were filed. The next stage was to prosecute them and refer them to trial with the judicial authorities to accuse them that “knowing them, they have falsely misleading, stating in the beginning that he had committed a criminal act.”

Today the court has decided to co -ordinate all the files, which relate to eight lawsuits, at the expense of those persons for the crimes of false misrepresentation and false deposition, simple and in confusion.

The present case includes the lawsuits, including Adonis Georgiadis, Dimitris Avramopoulos, Yiannis Stournaras, Andrea Loverdou, Mari Salma, Antonis Samaras and Evangelos Venizelos.

Attending the courtroom were, among other things, Yiannis Stournaras and Akis Skertsos.