In Greece, innovation is again: for the archetypal time, “protected witnesses” did not prevention the state from corruption, but themselves were convicted of perjury.
Filistors Destebasidis (he is “μάript σαράφης”) and Maria Marangeli (“Αικατερίνη κελέση”), who erstwhile talked astir bribes from the pharmaceutical elephantine Novartisnow convicted of false testimonies and slander addressed to politicians.
The tribunal sentenced: Destebasidis – by 25 months, Marangels – by 33. True, there will beryllium nary imprisonment: a conditional punishment for three years, taking into relationship their “approximate past”. But without softening for the motives – here, arsenic they say, “they themselves are to blame.”
Recall that large names fell under the show of their fantasies: Antonis Samaras, Evangelos Veniselos, Adonis Georgiadis, Andreas Loverdos, Yannis Sturnaras And a fewer much figures. They slandered everyone together, but there was nary evidence. But present the tribunal has rather existent defendants – the “witnesses” themselves.
Irony is that Novartis gate, which was supposed to beryllium the largest corruption ungraded of the decade, turned retired to beryllium a zilch. The perpetrators of corruption are not named, but those who were supposed to “pass the system” were accused of perjury.
Help: Novartis lawsuit successful Greece
Novartis – The Swiss Pharmaceutical Giant, accused of bribery of politicians and doctors of Greece for the involvement of preferences successful pricing and income of drugs. The ungraded flared up successful 2016-2018. And shocked the whole country.
- Among the mentioned are the erstwhile premier curate Antonis Samarasministers and caput of Greece Bank Yannis Sturnaras.
- The lawsuit has go the main governmental weapon of the authorities Sirizaaccused the absorption of corruption.
- However Real evidence The mysteriously disappearedA Key witnesses Now convicted of mendacious testimonies.
- At the aforesaid time, Novartis, who paid fines successful different countries for bribing officials, was guiltless successful Greece.
Bottom line: Politicians are acquitted, witnesses were convicted, and society remained with a bitter feeling that nary 1 won corruption successful the healthcare system.
This is acold distant Not the archetypal case In the past of modern Greece, when politicians successfully debar punishments for violation of the law. However The archetypal case successful the past of the country, when “Protected witnesses”come to bars with a feasibility of perjury.
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