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Defending himself before a corruption prosecutor Thursday as a suspect in the alleged bribery scandal involving Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis, former Socialist health minister Andreas Loverdos described the case as a "political frame-up" and "a scourge for the country."

A section of the case file on the alleged Novartis bribery scandal that prosecutors forwarded to Parliament to request that the immunity of former health minister Andreas Loverdos be lifted includes testimony by protected witnesses who claim that the politician was bribed to inform the company of an imminent haircut on Greek state bonds at the peak of the debt crisis.

Democratic Alignment’s MPs have brought the case of minister Olga Gerovasili in the Parliament with an official question they submitted today.

In their question they are asking for all the relevant documents and contracts that the minister have signed with the State and they ask the ministers of Health and Economics if these contracts will be canceled or not.

A council of appeals court judges on Tuesday ordered the extradition to Cyprus of Greek businessman Michalis Zolotas in connection with an alleged bribe paid to former Cyprus Central Bank governor Christodoulos Christodoulou.

Andreas Vgenopoulos, the lawyer turned businessman who founded one of Greece's largest holding groups, died at the age of 63 early on Saturday following a heart attack.

Vgenopoulos was the founder of Marfin Investment Group, which owned a number of businesses in Greece and southeastern Europe.

Criminal charges were filed against Greek financier and former Laiki Bank strongman Andreas Vgenopoulos on Thursday by prosecutors in Greece, over the lending of up to €200 million from Laiki to the IRF European Finance Investments, an investment vehicle owned by Greek ship-owner Angeliki Frangou. The case relates to some 200 million Euros in loans to the IRF without collateral, prosecutors cla

A desperate final email from Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz has revealed his fear of going blind, before slamming the A320 jet into the French Alps on March 24th last year, killing all 149 people on board.

An email sent by Lubitz to his doctor two weeks before the crash has been published by German newspaper “Bild”.

“Andreas died and left the party to unworthy successors” Dimitra Liani writes in her book “Orgi tou Andrea!” (“The Rage of Andreas!”) published by Livani publications clarifying, as she said to protothema.gr, that this is a political book reflecting the rage of Andreas and his clear policy.

The latest data recovered by the Germanwings flight’s black box sheds new light to what might have happened.

According to the Daily Mail, the French experts’ data publicized on Wednesday has evidence that Andreas Lubitz tried to recover manual control of the aircraft, shortly before the crash.

For the first time in the two weeks since Andreas Lubitz crashed a Germanwings airplane into the French Alps killing 150 people, a photo of the plane’s captain  sees the light of day.

Patrick Sondheimer was the man who tried the hardest to stop the tragedy from happening.