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Crime
First Lagarde List Missing 600 Names
A new list of Greeks with deposits in a Swiss bank given prosecutors by French officials reportedly shows as many as 600 more names than a previous one which still hasn’t been checked for possible tax cheats, and after...
Economy
Greek Parliament Abandons Tax List Probe
Quietly and without attention, Greece's Parliament’s institutions and transparency committee decided by a narrow majority to stop an investigation into why former finance ministers George Papaconstantinou and Evangelos Venizelos failed to check a list of 2,059 Greeks with $1.95...
Economy
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...
Economy
SYRIZA Bid for Greek Bailout Probe Nixed
To no surprise, a request by the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) to investigate the decisions that led to Greece seeking bailouts from international lenders was easily defeated in the Parliament controlled by the ruling coalition...
Economy
Greek Parliament Gets Lagarde List Case
The Greek Supreme Court has sent to Parliament the case file relating to the so-called Lagarde list of some 2,059 Greek with $1.95 billion in deposits in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC that still hasn’t been vetted for...
Greece
Acquitted Greek Journalist Prosecuted Again
Investigative journalist Costas Vaxevanis, who was acquitted of violation of privacy laws after publishing the names of 2,059 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret accounts in a Swiss bank he said hadn’t been checked for possible tax evasion, is...
Economy
Prosecutor Probing Venizelos, Papaconstantinou
Former finance ministers from the PASOK Socialist party, George Papaconstantinou, and Evangelos Venizelos – now the party’s head – will be investigated by Parliament to determine whether they were criminally negligent for failing to vet a list of 2,059...
Business
Vaxevanis Says Greece Hiding Corruption
A Greek journalist acquitted of violating privacy laws for publishing a list of 2,059 depositors with $1.95 billion in a Swiss bank being kept secret by the government, said the country’s political and rich are trying to muzzle the...
Economy
Greek Parliament to Probe Lagarde List
Even as a Greek judge acquitted a journalist of violation of privacy laws after he published a list of 2,059 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in a Swiss bank account, the Parliament is being asked to investigate why...
Economy
Vaxevanis Says Rich Elite Rules Greece
As he faces trial on charges of violating privacy laws for publishing a list of 2,059 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in a Swiss bank who were never checked for possible tax evasion, investigative journalist Costas Vaxevanis has...