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Economy
Greek Lifetime Job Guarantee In Peril
With the coming firing of 15,000 workers, it seemed that Greece was finally going to bend to demands from international lenders to reduce its bloated public workforce – except that it’s going to hire 15,000 younger workers to replace...
Crime
Papandreou's Mother Sues Over Lagarde List
The mother of former Greek prime minister George Papandreou, who said she had wrongly been named as having held a secret $550 million Swiss bank account on a list of 2,062 Greeks with deposits in the Geneva branch of...
Crime
Papandreou Refuses To Testify On Lagarde List
Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has for the second time sent a Parliamentary committee investigating a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts a note reiterating that he knew nothing about and that he won’t return from...
Greece
Papandreou's Deposition Leaves Lawmakers Cold
Saying they weren't satisfied with a written deposition in which he claimed to know nothing about a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts that was in the hands of his appointed finance minister, a parliamentary committee again...
Crime
Papandreou Denies Knowing Lagarde List
After refusing to appear in person, former Prime Minister George Papandreou has sent a written deposition to a parliamentary committee investigating the mishandling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that was...
Crime
Venizelos Says Rivals Worked Against Him
PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, testifying during a fiery hearing before a Parliamentary committee about his tenure as finance minister and his handling of a list of 2,065 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that wasn't...
Crime
Venizelos Will Testify On Lagarde List
After being exempted from an investigation into why a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in secret Swiss bank accounts hadn't been checked for tax evasion - although he had it in his possession - former...
Greece
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...
Crime
Court Says No SDOE Bank Access
Greece's highest administrative court, the Council of State, in a preliminary finding, has ruled unconstitutional a proposal by the country's financial crimes squad, SDOE, to freeze bank accounts, stock holdings and properties of suspects linked to large scale cases...
Crime
Tsochatzopoulos Charges Political Coverup
Former Greek defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, who has been detained in jail for nearly a year and was just sentenced to an eight-year term for failing to disclose his wealth while he awaits trial on more serious charges, has...