“The defendants played the role of my spit. I am interested in criminal and morally crying, “he testified yesterday at the Criminal Court In the trial of the two former protected witnesses in her case Novartisthe former prime minister Antonis Samaras.

Mr Samaras stressed that he has sued the moral perpetrators of the sailor, “with the former prime minister first Alexis Tsipras” As he testified, the defendants, Filistoras Destabasidis and Maria Marangeliit is “the last wheels of the car” in a “set up, from a set -up troupe to spit on their political opponents.”

Before stepping up Mr Samaras, the accused Filistoras Destabasidis, a former protected witness under the code name “Maximos Sarafis”, made a clarification statement on the so -called “Harvard Project” of the Pharmaceutical Industry, in which he said.

The defendant reiterated that his source of informed about the alleged politicians was the then head of Novartis Constantine Frouzis.

In his statement, the defendant concluded: “Finally, I clarify that Mr Frouzis or other company executive never told me that the then Prime Minister Mr Samaras was bribed, for whom I never doubted his morality and patriotism.”

In his testimony, Mr Samaras identified the start of the “spin” and the “personality murder” he received, on the day after the Prespa Agreement, with which he remains, as he pointed out, strongly opposed.

“The next day from the big rally, Papagelopoulos’ incredible statement opened that this is the biggest scandal. Papagelopoulos, a secret government, became a left -wing government minister. It is a stated case from a set -up troupe with the sole aim of sparking political opponents. I have sued the moral perpetrators with Alexis Tsipras first, “Mr Samaras said.

The former prime minister pointed out to the court that although during his term of office, the pharmaceutical expense was reduced by 64%: “I was accused in an impulsive way that I received money in a wheelchair. It seemed to me at first as a joke. When I succeeded in reducing the pharmaceutical expenditure by 64%, I favored Novartis, which for the first time in 2014 was damaged! ”

Speaking of “aggression from our persecutors”, Mr. Samaras described events that followed the “false deposits” of the two protected witnesses at the time and explained that “I said I would go to the end”.

As he reported: “Under Tsipras, I am on the plane for Brussels with my wife. We landed and called her, her sister was a bank and had a prosecutor, Mr Dzouras. Her sister told her she had to return immediately to open the door. My wife said the obvious: that she will come back tomorrow and “put a guard”. Mr. Dzouras did not accept it, he broke the door and .. coal the treasure! ”

The witness also said that the same day the same thing happened with the same prosecutor, with his brother’s door. “My brother, after a difficult heart surgery, calls Mr Dzouras and asks him to open his own door,” Mr Samaras said, describing that when his brother explained that he could not at that time, the prosecutor said he would open it. “The treasure was opened for the second time,” the former prime minister testified and noted:

“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. “

For the defendant, absent from the dock, Maria Marangeli who, under the code name “Catherine Kelesi”, had deposited for the bribery of the former prime minister, Mr Samaras said:

“Keles in her fourth deposit, remembered that the suitcase had gone for the prime minister! What in the good? No one asked her if she was the same ahead? If it had been asked in time, there would be no transgression. 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. They were judged and while my case was archived by the authorities, after the change of government, the witnesses continued to enjoy anonymity. “

Chairman: Do you think they testified these with fraud?

Antonis Samaras: They knew the consequences of their deposits. They did not get up one morning to go slander Samaras. Destabasidis removes in his statement today, Dolo. 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 Marangelis testified things she could not prove … I consider him the greatest guilty to me. “

The trial continues.