Lagarde list

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...

The deputy prosecutor of the Supreme Court has requested that former finance minister, Giorgos Papakonstantinou, appear before the Special Supreme Tribunal. In his proposal to the Judicial Council, the prosecutor proposed the trial of Giorgos Papakonstantinou for misconduct, infidelity,...

The Financial and Economic Crime Unit (SDOE) of Greece has already conducted 500 inspections of cases in the notorious "Lagarde list." As reported violations were discovered in all 500 cases. The SDOE director Theodoros Floratos reported that so far about 25% of the...

Prosecutors investigating a list of 2,602 Greeks with 1.5 billion euros ($1.95 billion) in secret Swiss bank accounts have reportedly found that 90 percent of them are tax cheats. The ongoing probe by financial prosecutors, Panagiotis Athanasiou and Galinos Mpris...

The Lagarde list case reopens after Easter and the former Greek Finance Minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou along with his relatives Eleni Papakonstantinou, Andreas Rossonis and Simeon Sikiaridis will be led in front of the Supreme Court special Magistrate Iosif Tsalaganidis. The...

The 100 million euros that the Greek public sector has managed to gather from controls in cases of large fraud and specifically from remittances to foreign banks and to off shore companies, seems to be like a drop in...

The chief of the Financial and Economic Crime Unit ( S.D.O.E.), Stelios Stasinopoulos, had a meeting on Tuesday morning with the Parliament’s ethics and transparency committee where he admitted that the investigation concerning the Lagarde List is moving at...

Greece's former finance minister George Papaconstantinou won't be able to avoid prosecution on charges he mishandled a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts - an investigation found the names of three of his...

Racial attacks, murders, deaths of children, closed universities, doctors on strike, terrorist attacks, unethical employers, trials and harsh sentences, is an image of Greece during 2013 that most people will unfortunately have. The following are the most important events that...

The Greek government has opened an account for  “corrupt” individuals to deposit money stolen from the state. Officials estimate that the account which was opened yesterday by the Deputy Minister of Finance, Christos Staikouras, could return to the government up...