Denying the charges against them and declaring that they would prove their innocence, they were placed in the Special Court, a former minister, Dimitris Papagelopoulos and the prosecutor Eleni Tulupaki.

In particular, prosecutor Eleni Tulupaki, when asked by President Vasiliki Iliopoulou, stated that she “denies the accusation and will prove that it is false.”

The former head of the Corruption Prosecutor’s Office is accused of abuse of power for failing to forward complaints filed by KINAL against the then Pan ministers to parliament. Kurumplis and Andreas Xanthos, who led the Ministry of Health portfolio during the SYRIZA-ANEL governments.

With the certainty that he is innocent, former Minister Dimitris Papagelopoulos, who served as Deputy Minister of Justice during the SYRIZA-ANEL governments, was also charged against him.

Former minister who is accused of moral complicity in the abuse of power by Eleni Tulupaki in connection with the KINAL complaint against Pan. Kurumplis stated that he was “not guilty of the charge in question”, adding that “the complaint documents were handed over to prosecutor Eleni Raiko (Eleni Tulupaki’s predecessor in the corruption prosecutor’s office) and she placed them in the Novartis case.”

Regarding the allegations that he interfered with the work of three prosecutors (Georgias Tsatanis, Eleni Raikou and Pan Athanasiou), the former minister stated the following:

“As for the prosecutors’ complaints, I will object not in my own words to their own words, but in my own words, where they testified (to the prosecutor’s office and parliament), because in addition to contradictions reaching the limits of absurdity, their lies are obvious. I will confront their lies with their original lies [και] with their subsequent lies.”