Lagarde
Crime
The Lagarde List's Hidden "Housewives"
The investigation into the so-called Lagarde List of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC has reportedly found that at least 20 top government officials are hiding assets of as much as 3 million...
Crime
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....
Crime
Panels Asks Charges For Papaconstantinou
A Greek Parliamentary committee investigating the handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that has never been checked for possible tax cheats has recommended former finance minister George Papaconstantinou be charged...
Crime
Panel Out To Get Me Says Papaconstantinou
Former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou refused to appear again before a Parliamentary committee investigating his handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret deposits in Swiss bank accounts, saying it has already decided to indict...
Crime
Elections Could Save Papaconstantinou
If a growing political crisis surrounding the Greek coalition government over the closing of the national broadcaster ERT by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras- a move that made him lose the support of his coalition partners - leads to early...
Greece
Papaconstantinou's Cousins Owe 10M Euros
Three cousins of former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou - whose names were erased from a 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts reportedly evaded more than 5.3 million euros ($7 million) in taxes, according to...
Crime
Kasidiaris Says Holocaust Fiction
The spokesman and a Member of Parliament for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, Ilias Kasidiaris, whipped up controversy while addressing the body after he suggested that he - like his party leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos - is a Holocaust denier.
During...
Greece
Papaconstantinou Hit With Breach Of Trust
Former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou, already being investigated by a parliamentary committee because the names of three of his relatives were removed from a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts, now will...
Greece
French Say Lagarde List Tax Collector
Disputing former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou's assertion that a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts he received in 2010 from then French finance chief Christine Lagarde was "unofficial and confidential," French authorities...
Crime
Corruption Prosecutors Quit, Hand Over Cases
Ongoing investigators into a myriad of corruption cases in Greece are being turned over to new special prosecutors after the two men handling them, Spyros Mouzakitis and Grigoris Peponis - who had ruffled feathers with their aggressive stance against...