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Parliament Votes to Indict Papaconstantinou

Former finance minister George Papaconstantinou will face a panel of judges on charges of tampering with a document and breach of duty after being indicted by the Greek Parliament in a secret ballot so lawmakers names wouldn't be revealed....

Greek MP's OK Bank List Probe of Papaconstantinou

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...

Diotis Says He Didn't Doctor Lagarde List

The former head of the Greek Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) chief Yiannis Diotis, in a written statement to prosecutors, admitted that he made a copy of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in a Swiss...

Papaconstantinou Blames Venizelos Over Lagarde List

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...

Papandreou Denies Mother On Swiss Bank List

Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and his mother have denied reports in the Greek media that she's behind the name of a civil servant with 550 million euros ($714 million) in deposits in a Swiss bank, with the...

Greek Prosectors Doubt Authenticity of Lagarde List

Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras reportedly is going to ask French officials to deliver the original list of 1,991 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in the Geneva branch of HSBC Bank to check for possible tax evasion after special...

Greek Customs Official Denies Involvement in Fuel Smugglers

ATHENS -  A top-ranking Greek Finance Ministry official who resigned under fire after charges he waived fines on some 3,500 gas stations for unlawful fuel trading denied any wrongdoing and said the penalties weren’t warranted because a government electronic...

Greek Prosecutor Charges Customs Officials in Tax Case

ATHENS – With pressure mounting on Greece to go after tax evaders and an embarrassing turnaround for the government after two top prosecutors going after tax cheats first resigned over what they said was political interference only to quickly...

Finance Official Quits After Fines on Tax Evaders Waived

Chief Appeals Court Prosecutor Spyros Mouzakitis has launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the recent resignation of Diomidis Spinellis, the General Secretary of Information Systems at the Finance Ministry, who was said to have quit because fines imposed...