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Economy
Papandreou, Papademos, Parliament Probe Targets
A move by the Independent Greeks party to include Former Premier George Papandreou and interim Prime Minister Lucas Papademos in an investigation of why a list of 2,065 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret accounts in a Swiss bank...
Crime
Papaconstantinou Says He Didn't Check Lagarde List
Former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou, set to be questioned over his role in the handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in a Swiss bank that hadn’t been checked for tax evaders, said he never...
Economy
Stournaras Says No More Heating Oil Help
With temperatures falling and many Greeks unable to afford heating oil because of huge tax increases on the fuel, Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras said the government can't afford to provide more oil subsidies to help the poor and told...
Crime
Papaconstantinou Says He Knows Bank List Tamperer
Former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou, who faces possible prosecution as investigators try to determine who removed the names of three of his relatives from a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in a Swiss bank...
Economy
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...
Crime
Lagarde List Shows Runaway Tax Evasion
An initial inquiry into a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC bank that has caused a political furor shows many are suspected of tax evasion, the newspaper Kathimerini reported.
The...
Crime
Former Greek FM Assails Parliament's Probe
Former Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, indicted by Greek lawmakers who voted to have Parliament investigate whether he removed the names of three relatives from a list of depositors in secret Swiss bank accounts, has blasted the move as an...
Crime
Former Greek FM Faces Bank List Probe
Facing an investigation into whether he tampered with a list of more than 2,000 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret accounts in a Swiss bank by removing the names of three relatives, former Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said...
Economy
Greeks Say Tax Cheat Crackdown Failing
With more austerity measures coming and aimed at workers, pensioners and the poor, more Greeks are getting fed up with the government's failure to corral tax cheats. More than two-thirds of Greeks say their government is failing to fight...
Cyprus
The 12 Events That Bent Greece In 2012
The world was supposed to end in 2012 – on Dec. 21 for you Mayan calendar believers and doomsday cultists – and for many Greeks it seemed like it did. Like the Flogging Molly song, it was the worst...