A former head of the Greek Financial Crimes Squad SDOE- refuting his own earlier testimony – has told a parliamentary committee investigating the handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that he was under the impression it couldn’t be used to vet for possible tax cheats. Yiannis [...]
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Four Cleared in Zachopoulos Sex Video
Six years after a so-called Sex, Lies and Videotape scandal rocked the government of then Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, four people have been acquitted of charges they violated the privacy of former Culture Ministry general secretary Christos Zachopoulos. An appeals court in Athens found former Culture Ministry employee Evi Tsekou, publisher Themos Anastasiadis, journalist Yiannis [...]
Greece Cracks Unlawful Drug Export Ring
The Greek Police (EL.AS) Organized Crime Squad along with the financial crimes squad (SDOE) have conducted a joint operation to raid pharmacies and drug wholesalers they said have unlawfully engaged in drugs trafficking. The operations targeted Athens and other cities nationwide, such as Thessaloniki, Rhodes and Komotini. About 300 pharmacies, companies and individuals were involved, [...]
Greek Company Probed For Gold Smuggling
A Greek exporting company currently under investigation for issuing bogus checks came onto the radar of customs officials at Athens International Airport earlier this month after an employee was caught traveling with large quantities of unregistered gold and silver to Germany, the newspaper Kathimerini reported. Members of Elyros, whose headquarters are listed as being located [...]
German Gold Smuggler Nabbed In Greece
With unregulated gold businesses growing fast in Greece during a crushing economic crisis as people pawn their goods, a police crackdown has netted a German man who was been charged with trying to smuggle hundreds of pounds of gold and silver out of the country. Investigators said the man tried to send 425 kilograms (940 [...]
SDOE Pushed On Lagarde List Report
Tired of foot-dragging by Greece’s Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) in delivering a report on a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts, members of a Parliament committee investigating it said they want it produced. The panel is trying to find who deleted the names of three relatives of former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou before [...]
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 checked for tax evaders, accused everyone else around him during that time for conspiring against him. [...]
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 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that hasn’t been checked for tax evaders. [...]
Greek Lawmakers Get Lagarde List
Greece’s Financial and Economic Crime Unit (SDOE) has sent to a Parliamentary Preliminary Investigation Committee the list of 919 Greeks with in secret Swiss bank accounts that hasn’t been checked for tax evasion for more than 2 1/2 years. The original list was said to have 2,062 names but there was no explanation for the [...]
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 of tax evasion, smuggling and other financially-related crimes. The decision is a setback in Prime Minister [...]
Greece Gets Access To Bank Accounts
As the government steps up its goal to collect from tax cheats, officials of the Financial Crimes Unit (SDOE) will have direct online access to Greek bank accounts as of March 19, looking for evidence that can be used, although much of the country’s suspected tax evasion is occurring through the use of accounts in [...]
Greek Tax Inspectors Vetted For Corruption
With the government anxious to track down tax cheats, Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras has asked his Internal Affairs Department to check the assets of 240 senior ministry and regional officials who have handled tax inspection in recent years in an apparent bid to ensure that none of the agents of the government’s tax evasion crackdown [...]
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Calendar – Exhibits, Concerts, Fun
- Greece Celebrates International Museum Day on May 18 May 18, 2013
- Edessa Cherries, Wine For Gastronomy Fair May 17, 2013
- Greek Choreographers Festival In Thessaloniki May 17, 2013
- Taxidi Exhibit 2013 Opens in Cyprus May 16, 2013
