By Helena Galaris

Political motives attributes his involvement in the Novartis case by Bank of Greece Governor Yiannis Stournaras, who filed in the trial of the two protected witnesses.

Asking the defendants to tell him a ‘apology“, Others and”Who were the ones who made them falsely testify that it was bribed“, Mr. Stournaras said:

“SYRIZA did not accept me as the Governor of the Bank of Greece. They thought that if they had someone in my position, they could do other things. They had caught the protected witnesses for something taxable or the other and set up the Novartis. Novartis did not benefit. I believe they were motivated by someone else. I ask them to come out and say apologies and say who they put on them. I entered public life leaving a career to help the homeland and I no longer accept what happened. To tell us who they put on them. I know very well, but I won’t tell you. I know where even the testimonies were written, there were copy paste. Mr. Destabasidis was a market man. I think my wife had also witnessed him in some of her lawsuits at the expense of protected witnesses when it was not known who the protected witnesses were, because they were market people who knew that witnesses’ deposits were not standing.“

The witness and suitor testified that the purpose of the protected witnesses was to expel him from the position of central banker.

“I have no question with either of the two defendants, because I think they were blackmailed. It was the last wheel of the car. What I ask for in the name of the rule of law is to apologize and say who they put on them. Will have provided services to the rule of law“Mr. Stournaras said.