{"id":65319,"date":"2018-02-21T23:50:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T23:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/greek-commissioner-to-speak-out-on-bribery-allegations-17\/"},"modified":"2018-02-21T23:50:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T23:50:50","slug":"greek-commissioner-to-speak-out-on-bribery-allegations-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/greek-commissioner-to-speak-out-on-bribery-allegations-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek commissioner to speak out on bribery allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dimitris Avramopoulos, the European commissioner for migration and home affairs, will hold a press conference in Athens on Friday to defend himself against accusations that he is involved in a bribery case targeting drugmaker Novartis.<\/p>\n<p>Avramopoulos\u2019 name came up alongside other high-level Greek officials in a case in which the Swiss pharma company is accused of bribing doctors and public officials to prescribe and procure its medicines. Novartis denied the accusations last year, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/pro\/prosecutors-raid-novartis-in-athens-after-bribery-allegations\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">prosecutors swooped on its Athens office<\/a> in search of evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner, who was a health minister in Greece between 2006 and 2009, has pushed back hard against the allegations in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iefimerida.gr\/news\/394946\/ektakti-synenteyxi-typoy-tha-dosei-tin-paraskeyi-o-dimitris-avramopoylos\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Greek media<\/a>. Only \u201csick minds\u201d could have come up with the accusations, he said.<\/p>\n<p>A European Commission spokesman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/today-at-commission-junckers-dinners-and-avramopoulos\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Brussels didn\u2019t have anything to add to Avramapoulos\u2019 statements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/greek-commissioner-to-speak-out-on-novartis-bribery-allegations\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[contf]<br \/>\n[contfnew]<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMd3Tz2gX9xSa6CJyaOj2dokBVcrdaT4yY3R3RI7YmL18vCLZZ\"\/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/&gt;Politico&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/h5&gt;_&lt;\/p&gt;[contfnewc]_[contfnewc]_&lt;\/body&gt;&lt;\/html&gt;\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimitris Avramopoulos, the European commissioner for migration and home affairs, will hold a press c..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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