tax evasion

Greek financial authorities acted on a bank account list recently provided by German authorities by raiding the UBS Athens branch on Friday evening and seizing information. Following the raid, Greek authorities identified 200 people who were included in the latest bank account compilation that has...

The Public Prosecutor's Office of District Court Judges charged Former President of the Hellenic Parliament and former SYRIZA MP Alexis Mitropoulos with felony charges for money laundering and tax evasion, Greek media report. Mitropoulos, who served as the parliament's vice president from...

The new list of Greek taxpayers' bank accounts abroad that the Greek government just received from Germany may not be so new after all. Norbert Walter Borjan, the Finance Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia that was able to...

The Greek government has gotten its hands on a new and even bigger list of Greek taxpayers' bank accounts in Switzerland, thanks to the help of the German Federal Government The Finance Ministry revealed that the list includes 10,588 accounts from 2006...

Greeks owe their own state 82.3 billion euros according to data provided General Secretariat of Public Revenue, Greek media report. According to the new figures provided by the Greek Finance Ministry, overdue payments to the Greek state increased by 832 million euros...

Former Greek Finance Minister Yiannos Papantoniou and his wife Starvroula Kiriakou were each sentenced to four years in prison, that can instead be converted into a daily 10 euro payment, and were ordered to pay a 10,000 euro penalty each, for...

Greek Deputy Finance Minister Tryfon Alexiadis became the second Greek official to receive a bullet in the mail within four days. The bullet was enclosed in the mail that was delivered to the Greek Finance Ministry on Monday and was addressed to Alexiadis. It was accompanied...

Greek Economy Minister Giorgos Stathakis confirmed that he is the Greek minister who did not report one million euros of income to the parliamentary Audit Committee for the Declarations of Assets, which examines the sources of income for each Greek...

Greek Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos said that the statute of limitations will not apply on the list of suspected tax evaders who have accounts in foreign banks. "The statute of limitations will not apply on the Lagarde List. There is...

Combating large-scale tax evasion is a priority for the government, Alternate Finance Minister Tryfon Alexiadis said on Thursday. In a television interview, Alexiadis said there were currently around 25,000 tax evasion cases with an estimated average tax of 600,000...