For the NOVARTIS case, after the revelations about the “handover” of money to the protected witnesses and the request to remove the “hoods”, the ND MP was appointed Thanos Pleurison the show “Today” on SKAI.

“If the hoods come off, we will see the biggest scandal of the post-colonial era, which is a party, SYRIZA, which, on top of a doctors’ bribery scandal, wanted to imprison political opponents and in fact endanger the state itself,” he emphasized and added: “The preliminary committee concluded that the witnesses who testified in Greece and America, they are common and this appears from the documents. The witnesses in America testified that bribes were given only to doctors and not to political figures”, Mr. Pleuris emphasized, referring to the history of the case, adding that when “the statements come to Greece, some people realize who these people are. When they testified in Greece, they also mentioned political figures. The deposits in Greece turned out to be false.”

He then said that “a key element for someone to be a protected witness is that he must have told the truth” while referring to the testimony of Professor Mr. Maniadakis he said that “we have come to the conclusion that apparently the witnesses were told what to say. Mr. Maniadakis said he was asked by prosecutors to name political figures. Then came the testimony of Ms. Raikou, who stated that Mr. Papagelopoulos asked her to transfer the file to the parliament”

In fact, he emphasized that there are “testimonies of witnesses whose decisions turned out to be false.” If the protection regime comes out and they understand that there will be consequences, they will say who told them”, and added “SYRIZA knows that it has set up a scam on top of an existing scandal. Mr. Papagelopoulos has been convicted of interfering with Ms. Raiku on the case.”

When asked who formed the list of 10 political figures, Mr. Pleuris claimed that “someone from SYRIZA guided him. In 2021, a committee was set up in consultation with the Ministries of Finance and Justice with legal advisors of the state in order to take action against the company NOVARTIS for the first time. With the lawsuit we are asking for the same amount that was given as compensation to America and the second one is an investigation that we are looking for if there is damage in our country”.

In conclusion, the ND MP argued that during the period of SYRIZA’s government, there was not a single disturbance at the company. Doctors’ cases were time-barred because an entire judiciary dealt with the 10 political figures and the doctors’ scandal was left aside.”