Reactions continued unabated on Tuesday over the latest chapter in the long-standing Novartis kickbacks investigation, with former minister Evangelos Venizelos referring to the “biggest and ill-prepared conspiracy over the past decades” in Greece.
Venizelos, a veteran PASOK minister and noted constitutional law expert, was one of 10 former office-holders initially named in an indictment compiled by an anti-corruption prosecutor. Allegations by three anonymous witnesses against Venizelos fizzled out.
“I had stated, from the beginning, that the Novartis scandal is in reserve. It affects those who organized this plot…This reverse scandal is huge and self-evident. It is an insult to our form of government, and as such, we do not have the right to downgrade or forget it. It does not affect those personally offended but democracy and the rule of law.”
