In high tones, the minister filed Adonis Georgiadis Health In the trial of former protected witnesses of the case Novartis Filistor Desesbasidis and Maria Marangeli For their false allegations, the bribery of politicians by the pharmaceutical industry.

Mr. Georgiadis, second suits after Andrea Loverdo who opened the circle of the category witnesses, he filed in the One -Member Criminal Court for the “hoodlums” who seven years ago, with allegations that proved to be non -existent, brought him and nine other politicians facing “Novartis”.

Describing a “shocking slander” what the “Maximos Sarafis” and “Catherine Kelesi” had claimed, the minister attributed immediate deception to the acts of the accused. As he pointed out, their aim was to receive a remuneration from the US and at the same time to secure protection from the Greek government so that they do not have criminal responsibility for the “role of slander” they agreed to serve to “hit the opponents of the then government with the same benefit”.

Mr Georgiadis even pointed out that Destbasidis and Kelesis in America gave the authorities useful information on the role and practices of the pharmaceutical industry, while in Greece they submitted “events that remembered” which had not invoked beyond the Atlantic.

Once again, the minister asked the two defendants to say Who are the ones who put them on “to say these lies“While during the questions that Flistor Destbasidis wanted to ask him, Mr. Georgiadis told him that if he named the officials of the sailor, he would have another approach to him:” Tell who he put you. Tell the antithesis and clean your name, ”he urged the accused.

The witness was asked by the president when he met the then powerful man of the Greek section of Novartis Constantine Frouzi.

“I met him as the president of the Pharmaceutical Business Association of Greece at the time of the PSI. I had the same relationship with the current president of SFEE with the then president. I am accessible to everyone, my mobile has the whole market. My term of office has so far been linked to the largest reduction in pharmaceutical expenditure in the Greek state. Note that SFEE and personally Mr Frouzis had issued a press release in November 2013 and demanded my resignation. When I read the accusation of saying that in September 2013 I got Frouzi 2m euros I asked to see the pricing and really Novartis had received obviously less money than other pharmaceuticals. It was the 5th or 6th company in satisfying its demands, ”replied Mr. Georgiadis.

Chairman: What was the Harvard Project?

Witness: You tell me. They asked me to make a greeting at an event. I went, I talked, I left. Then I learned that I was accused of eating 250,000 euros!

For the third former protected witness, who in the present trial is accused of an act but also a suitor, Nikos Maniadakis, Mr. Georgiadis said he was his adviser as a public health professor and added that he had initially turned against him but “when he said he did not say.”

The questions asked by F. Destempasidis asked the witness’s position on the institution of protected witnesses and his opinion if he is affected by the trial

Georgiadis: The institution can be very good as long as all the conditions are met. The witness of the public interest should be controlled and know that he will be strictly punished. To know that if he says what goes down to his head he will not go unpunished.

Accused: Was the Novartis case scandalous?

Georgiadis: It seems that some doctors are involved.

Accused: Why don’t we have a court order yet? I gave data to 4,000 doctors …

Georgiadis: Why did you turn the research into political figures.

Great tension occurred during the minister’s examination by Maria Marengelis’ defense lawyer, Konstantinos Doukas. Indeed, the defense lawyer was also against Mr Georgiadis and needed the intervention of the minister’s guard to overthrow the tension.

The lawyer was outraged by his phrase, also charged, witness “to be ashamed of what your mother did” and a serious incident was threatened, with the lawyer moving towards the witness and throwing the recording microphones, asking Mr Georgiadis. The minister’s guard intervened on the scene while the court was briefly interrupted. The situation was normalized with the minister apologizing and the lawyer to accept it.