Former head of Greece’s Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) Yiannis Kapeleris was released unconditionally today, after facing prosecutors Christos Papakostas and Dimitris Kavalaris, over charges of breach of trust in connection with the “Lagarde list“.
Kapeleris, who headed SDOE when Giorgos Papakonstantinou was Minister of Finance, denies ever receiving the list containing the names of 2,062 Greeks with deposit accounts at a Geneva branch of HSBC.
According to reports, Kapeleris told the prosecutors that he was never ordered by Papakonstantinou to investigate the people on the list, but was ordered to probe the tax details of a group of 10 people.
His successor and co-defendant, Yiannis Diotis, is expected to face the two prosecutors on Wednesday.
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