New Democracy, Novartis Case Targets Say Tsipras Concocted Fake Scandal
(WorldNews Greece)

ATHENS – With Prime Minister and Radical Left SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras´ claims that 10 political rivals had taken bribes from the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis falling apart after prosecutors couldn´t find evidence, the targets have struck buck. The major opposition New Democracy, leading big in polls in an election year, said what they called a fake scandal was fabricated last year by the government to divert attention from a fiercely-protested deal Tsipras made to give away the name of the province of Macedonia to the newly-named North Macedonia, and as he kept plunging in surveys after four years of reneging in anti-austerity vows. The case had begun some two years...