Greece

Greece’s Parliament decided on Wednesday January 22, to lift the immunity of the Independent Greek MPVassilis Kapernaros, but not of the deputies Miltiadis Varvitsiotis and Argyris Dinopoulos. According to Christos Markogiannakis, who presided at the voting, about 230 deputies took...

The Greek Financial Crime Unit (SDOE)  is targeting the tax statements of around 500 people of considerable wealth from all fields of public life, including former ministers, MPs, elected officials and heads of state agencies and enterprises. It is...

Four men were arrested as members of a ring believed to be manufacturing and trafficking large quantities of an illegal drug called Captagon, during an operation near Elefsina and Megara on Friday by Greece’s Financial Crimes Unit (SDOE), in...

Former Prime Minister George Papandreou threatened legal action on Tuesday against anyone reproducing excerpts from a forthcoming book by former HSBC employee Herve Falciani, who claims Papandreou was blackmailed into signing Greece's bailout. The title of the book to be...

More tax evasion scams uncovered in Greece...... The Financial Crime Squad of Greece, known as SDOE, has revealed 38 cases of remittances worth over 5 million euros each and another 15 cases of remittances worth more than 1 million euros...

  Greece’s Financial and Crime Unit (SDOE) had quite a big job on their hands last year. After numerous thorough controls, SDOE discovered that there are an abundance of Greek citizens from different groups that are not paying their taxes...

As the government steps up its goal to collect from tax cheats, officials of the Financial Crimes Unit (SDOE) will have direct online access to Greek bank accounts as of March 19, looking for evidence that can be used,...

By a wide margin, the Greek Parliament in the early morning hours of Jan. 18 voted to have  former finance Giorgos Papaconstantinou investigated over charges of removing the names of three relatives from a list of Greeks with secret...

Former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou, set to be questioned over his role in the handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in a Swiss bank that hadn’t been checked for tax evaders, said he never...

A showdown is building over a pending investigation of former finance minister George Papaconstantinou’s handling of a list of 2,000 Greeks with deposits in secret accounts in a Swiss bank between the government and the major opposition party Coalition...

Former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou, who was ejected from the PASOK Socialist party after charges emerged that the names of three of his relatives were removed from a list of more than 2,000 Greeks with deposits in a...

Greece’s most famous fashion designer, Lakis Gavalas, was arrested on Friday night in Athens. Greek media reported that Gavalas was the most wanted state debtor for almost a week. Lakis Gavalas owes 1,4 million euros worth of VAT tax and...