According to reports, Greece's independent authority against money laundering has reportedly frozen all assets owned by the pair in the country, while conveying to Swiss authorities a request that banks accounts they maintain in that country also be frozen

The allegations against 10 top politicians and officeholders, made over several months and in confidential testimony before the head of the anti-corruption prosecutor office and her associates, never generated an indictment by the latter

After years of legal proceedings, two former witnesses are convicted for false testimony and false accusations, closing a controversial chapter in Greece’s high-profile Novartis investigation

Eight years after explosive claims of political bribery, two former protected witnesses face judgment on charges of false testimony in the high-profile Novartis case

The pair is being tried for allegations, made in testimony before anti-corruption prosecutors, that 10 politicians received kickbacks by Novartis’ subsidiary in Greece

Georgiadis—one of the accused politicians—called the case a political setup by the former SYRIZA government.

The charges stemmed from their testimony before judicial officers alleging that 10 previous officeholders and politicians took kickbacks from Novartis’ subsidiary in Greece

Both individuals have been named and identified as former high-ranking staff-members of Novartis’ subsidiary in Greece

The explosive and lengthy Novartis judicial probe in Greece fizzled out without even one charge making it to a courtroom

Former Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras gives his first interview since resigning last summer from leftist SYRIZA party's helm