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Greeks Hide Accounts in Luxembourg, Lichtenstein

List_lichtensteinGreek authorities, who still haven’t checked a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in a Swiss bank for tax evaders, said some 54,000 citizens have accounts in foreign banks worth $19.5 billion, including in Luxembourg and Lichtenstein, media reports said.
The Athens newspaper Ethnos said that there are now six lists the government knows about and preliminary findings indicate that more than 31,000 taxpayers are being examined for secreting away, although it wasn’t reported whether taxes had been paid on any of it. It’s not unlawful for Greeks to have deposits abroad as long as taxes are paid.
The newspaper said that there are 5,200 Greeks said to be in what the government calls a zone of high-likelihood of tax evasion. According to Ethnos, there is suspicion that 4,500 Greeks with deposits in Luxembourg and Lichtenstein haven’t paid taxes and Greek authorities have the names in their hands but haven’t revealed them.
The newspaper said the Lichtenstein list was known in 2007 but was ignored by the administration of then-Prime Minister and former New Democracy Conservative leader Costas Karamanlis, who had vowed zero tolerance on corruption.
Besides bank deposits, the newspaper said investigators are probing 100 Greeks for tax evasion who were found to have expensive boats docked in The Netherlands who hadn’t reported them on their tax forms, along with 600 others who bought expensive properties in London.

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