The final straight today is the trial of the two former protected witnesses in the case of Novartis’s illegal practices, with the apology of the accused Filistor Destabasidis, a former executive of the pharmaceutical industry, before the One -Member Criminal Court.

The defendant’s apology is expected to begin after noon.

Following the apology of “Maximos Sarafis”, the court will stop the meetings for a few days and has scheduled Maria’s apology.

What does the accused support

The accused for false deposition and misdemeanor He is called upon to explain to the court about what he had claimed as “Maximus Sarafis” at the then Corruption Public Prosecutor’s Office of political financial persons, allegations that were investigated and reached the archive as there was no evidence to confirm them.

Present throughout the trial, as opposed to his co -defendant Maria Marangeli who preferred to be represented, Destambasidis from the beginning of the hearing with a written statement argued that he argued that he argued that those filed As a protected witness against politicians such as Antonisamaras, ‘Adonis Georgiadis, Dimitris Avramopoulos, Yiannis Stournaras, Andreas Loverdos and Evangelos Venizeloswho testified in the trial, are ‘Absolutely true’.

According to the accused, “Novartis herself admitted to the US that the scandal is also concerned with bribery From this Greek politicians and other government officials. ” In the evolution of the proof, the defendant told the court that “source»For what he had filed to the Corruption Public Prosecutor’s Office was the former head of the Greek section of the pharmaceutical industry Constantine Frouzis.

The former chief executive of Novartis himself denied Filistor Destabasidis’ claim.