Opposition accuses gov't of interfering with justice over Novartis scandal

Opposition New Democracy has accused the left-led government of interfering with the course of an investigation into allegation that Swiss drug firm Novartis paid bribes in Greece to receive preferential treatment.

The conservative party issued a statement after Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis and his deputy, Dimitris Papangelopoulos, met with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday night to brief him on the content of a case file that will be forwarded by the Supreme Court to Parliament on Tuesday.

In the case file, 10 high-ranking officials are allegedly linked to the scandal, which sees the pharmaceutical firm accused of paying bribes between 2006 and 2015 to Greek government officials, health administrators and doctors to fix prices and increase market access.

Papangelopoulos described the allegations as "the biggest scandal since the creation of the modern...