“I had taken the decision confront Tsipras violently in Parliament,” Said Loverdos at the Novartis protected witnesses trial

At the trial held at the Single-Member Misdemeanor Court of Athens, former minister Andreas Loverdos repeated his claim that the protected witnesses lied “to get money from the United States,” and revealed that his aides had discouraged him from attacking former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, warning it would have been his political downfall