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Crime
SDOE Eyes 36 Pols For Money Crimes
Greece's financial crimes squad SDOE is reportedly looking at a raft of top-ranking politicians in Greece for possible unlawful enrichment, but the leak of the 36 names has set Greek officials on a hunt to find who did it....
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...
Crime
Nazi-Salute Soccer Player Banned Again
Professional soccer player Giorgos Katidis, who was banned for life from Greece's national team for giving a Nazio-like salute after scoring the winning goal for his team in a Greek league match, has also been given a five-match ban...
Economy
Prosecutor Probes New Democracy, PASOK Loans
While banks are pressing austerity-crushed Greeks to pay back their loans in full despite big pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions, prosecutors are probing why the New Democracy and PASOK Socialist parties who are partners in a coalition...
Crime
Papaconstantinou Probe Gets Fast Track
The Greek government isn’t wasting time going after former finance minister George Papaconstantinou over his handling of a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts. A Parliamentary committee is expected to be appointed on Jan. 21 to look...
Crime
Gap Shows Up in Lagarde List USB Stick
The convoluted case of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret accounts in a Swiss bank that hasn't been checked for possible tax evasion took another bizarre turn with a report that the names of three...
Economy
Greeks Must Declare Foreign Bank Accounts
In yet another attempt to pursue possible tax evaders, and in the aftermath of failures to check secret bank accounts of Greeks in other countries, the Finance Ministry is sending out letters to 15,000 people who were found to...
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...
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
Greek Prosectors Doubt Authenticity of Lagarde List
Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras reportedly is going to ask French officials to deliver the original list of 1,991 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in the Geneva branch of HSBC Bank to check for possible tax evasion after special...