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Mitsotakis regime now goes after prosecutors who were investigating big scandals!

globinfo freexchange   The decline of the judicial system in Greece continues under the corrupted Mitsotakis regime. The situation now resembles a third-world country.  We saw recently that the regime went after top investigative journalists who, were investigating big scandals and especially the Novartis scandal. Now, the regime turned against the top anti-corruption prosecutor who was investigating the scandal! Eleni Touloupaki has been called yesterday by the judicial authorities to testify as a defendant!   As has been mentioned : While Novartis agreed in 2020 to pay US$347 million as part of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commision over violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, in which it acknowledged making illegal payments to Greek healthcare providers and officials, Greece itself did little to hold the Swiss pharmaceutical company and the recipients of the bribes to account. Instead, prosecutor Eleni Touloupaki who was