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Greece Probes Golden Dawn Finances

As Greece prosecutes the leaders of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party on charges of running a criminal gang, investigators said they want access to financial records and bank accounts of the suspects and are asking the help of the...

Greek Tax Agents Meet Hostile Crowds

Restaurant and tavern owners and customers are increasingly harassing tax inspectors at a time when Greece has intensified a long-overdue crackdown on tax evasion, but officials are determined to enforce the tax laws. Residents in a village in Peloponnese barred...

Kallithea Nightclub Ignores Order To Close

A nightclub in Kallithea area of Athens, Chalkidiki, where the popular Greek singer Panos Kiamos was performing, was ordered shut for 48 hours after inspectors from Greece's Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) in Theassaloniki found a number of tax evasion...

The Lagarde List's Hidden "Housewives"

The investigation into the so-called Lagarde List of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC has reportedly found that at least 20 top government officials are hiding assets of as much as 3 million...

SDOE Finds Resort Areas Tax Cheats

Inspections carried out by Greece's Financial Crime Squad in tourist areas has found that resorts aren't handing out receipts as required and those in Evia are ducking 100 percent of their tax obligations. That comes as the Value Added Tax...

Parliament Votes to Indict Papaconstantinou

Former finance minister George Papaconstantinou will face a panel of judges on charges of tampering with a document and breach of duty after being indicted by the Greek Parliament in a secret ballot so lawmakers names wouldn't be revealed....

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....

Panel Out To Get Me Says Papaconstantinou

Former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou refused to appear again before a Parliamentary committee investigating his handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret deposits in Swiss bank accounts, saying it has already decided to indict...

Tax Crackdown On Greek Lawyers, Doctors

Once again, Greece says it is going after tax cheats, this time doctors and lawyers who are notorious for dodging what they owe the government, and as a scrutiny by agents of the Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) shows the...

Witnesses Say Tsochatzopoulos Mastermind

Former defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos ran the show in organizing a vast money-laundering operation to hide the trail of money stolen from defense contracts, witnesses said at his trial on corruption charges. That included offshore companies to be used...