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Greece's parliament elected former Council of State head Katerina Sakellaropoulou as the country's next president on Wednesday, a largely ceremonial role that also brings with it limited political powers.

Greece's parliament elected former Council of State head Katerina Sakellaropoulou as the country's next president on Wednesday, a largely ceremonial role that also brings with it limited political powers.

It has been more than six years since Pavlos Fyssas was murdered and the government of Antonis Samaras decided to open a criminal investigation into the criminal activities of Golden Dawn.

Konstantinos Frouzis, former vice president and general manager of Novartis, claimed on Thursday that he was targeted so that politicians would be implicated in the alleged bribery scandal involving the Swiss pharmaceutical company.

Amid the enthusiasm and the celebrations regarding the fact that figures in the top echelons of Greece's Golden Dawn are being tried in connection with the criminal activities of the neo-Nazi party, many people appear to have forgotten that it was thanks to the determination of Antonis Samaras' administration that the scattered case file was brought together and the phenomenon was dealt with in

A special parliamentary committee tasked with probing possible discrepancies in the declarations of wealth of political personnel decided on Thursday to consign to the archive a file on Stavros Papastavrou, an ex-aide of former conservative prime minister Antonis Samaras.

In testimony before a Supreme Court prosecutor on Thursday, a former protected witness in the Novartis investigation claimed that he came under pressure from Greek corruption prosecutors to testify against politicians in the absence of any incriminating evidence.

Greece's former corruption prosecutor Eleni Raikou, who quit her post in 2017 over alleged political interference in the Novartis bribery investigation, on Monday accused former Alternate Justice Minister Dimitris Papangelopoulos of a series of interventions in her work. 

Greece's former corruption prosecutor Eleni Raikou, who quit her post in 2017 over alleged political interference in the Novartis bribery investigation, was to testify on Monday in connection with a probe into the possible mishandling of the original investigation. 

It remained unclear on Thursday whether the special Parliament committee which will be set up in early October to probe the possible mishandling of the alleged Novartis bribery case by the previous government will deem then that it is indeed the appropriate body to examine the case or if it will proceed to examine the testimonies of key figures and issue a finding.