In the end he gave in: after four days of passion, with public opinion and the newspapers scandalised, the former top manager of the Swiss group Novartis Daniel Vasella gave up, giving up on liquidating the scandal: 72 million francs, about 60 million euros, which the pharmaceutical multinational Novartis, of which he had just left the leadership, had guaranteed him, divided over 6 years, for him to undertake not to work for the competition.
"I waive the competition clause, therefore the severance pay", announced this morning, shortly after 8, the 59-year-old Vasella, certainly bent by the attacks, which rained down on him from all sides, after last Friday, the site Inside parade ground, had given news of the agreement between the top manager and his former employer.
