A former head of the Greek Financial Crimes Squad SDOE- refuting his own earlier testimony – has told a parliamentary committee investigating the handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that he was under the impression it couldn’t be used to vet for possible tax cheats. Yiannis [...]
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SDOE Pushed On Lagarde List Report
Tired of foot-dragging by Greece’s Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) in delivering a report on a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts, members of a Parliament committee investigating it said they want it produced. The panel is trying to find who deleted the names of three relatives of former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou before [...]
Papandreou Won’t Testify On Lagarde List
Former prime minister George Papandreou has said he won’t appear before a parliamentary committee investigating a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that was never checked for tax evaders at a time his administration was imposing big pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions on the populace on the [...]
Papandreou May Be Called On Lagarde List
Greece’s former Head of National Intelligence Service (EYP,) Costantinos Bikas, has been called to testify before a parliamentary committee investigating the removal of the names of three relatives of former finance minister George Papaconstantinou from a list of 2,602 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that hasn’t been checked for tax evaders. [...]
Greek Lawmakers Get Lagarde List
Greece’s Financial and Economic Crime Unit (SDOE) has sent to a Parliamentary Preliminary Investigation Committee the list of 919 Greeks with in secret Swiss bank accounts that hasn’t been checked for tax evasion for more than 2 1/2 years. The original list was said to have 2,062 names but there was no explanation for the [...]
Greek Tax Cheat Breaks Withdrawn
After hostile reaction, the Greek government said it would not go ahead with plans to give tax cheats an 80 percent discount on fines they would have to pay for breaking the law, including some 2,062 people with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts, the so-called Lagarde List, that has created a scandal and [...]
Democratic Left Boots Two MP’s
With PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos under challenge, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is losing support from his other coalition partner, the Democratic Left, after two of its members were ejected for saying they want an investigation of Venizelos over his mishandling of a bank list that hadn’t been checked for tax evaders. Samaras, who [...]
Greece Probes Officials Over Lagarde List
Greek prosecutors have questioned two finance ministry officials close to former Socialist finance minister George Papaconstantinou, who is caught up in a tax scandal shaking Greek politics, judicial sources said on Jan. 4. Agence-France-Presse said the two officials worked in Papaconstantinou’s office when he was minister from 2009 to 2011. The source told the news [...]
Journalist Who Leaked “Lagarde List” Arrested
Greek Police arrested the journalist who published the list with the names of 2,059 people who made $1.95 billion in deposits in the Geneva, Switzerland HSBC bank branch. The arrest took place at a house of a friend of the Greek journalist in the Northern suburbs of Athens around 11.30 a.m. on Oct. 28. As he was getting arrested [...]
Prosecutor Orders Arrest of Greek Journalist who Leaked Swiss Accounts List
Greek police are seeking to locate and arrest Costas Vaxevanis, the Greek journalist who published the list with the names of 1,991 people who made $1.95 billion in deposits in the Geneva, Switzerland HSBC bank branch. Greek police said that the prosecutor ordered the arrest of the investigative journalist and publisher of ‘Hot-Doc’ magazine because by [...]
Lagarde List Leaked: Greek Politicians, Big Names
A closely-kept secret by the Greek government – the names of 1,991 people who made $1.95 billion in deposits in the Geneva, Switzerland HSBC bank branch – has been released by a Greek investigative journalist and immediately went viral on the Internet, listing several politicians, an advisor to Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, well-known businessmen, journalists, [...]
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