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Former Greek Financial Prosecutor Claims His Job Was Obstructed By Govt Officials
In an interview on Greek newspaper “Proto Thema,” and fifteen months after his resignation, former financial prosecutor Spyros Mouzakitis claimed that his work was obstructed by government officials. He further made special reference to the loans given to political parties when...
Crime
Supreme Court Appoints Corruption Chiefs
Greece's highest court has appointed two new financial prosecutors to replace the outgoing investors Spyros Mouzakitis and Grigoris Peponis who have been digging into a slew of scandals and produced cases against high-level former government officials.
Panayiotis Athanasiou, who has...
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...
Greece
Djebbour Examined for Tax Evasion
Rafik Zoheir Djebbour, the Algerian international footballer of Olympiakos is being investigated for possible tax evasion, according to web capital.gr of NET and MEGA.
The footballer, first scorer in the Super League, was targeted by economic prosecutors just a few...
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...
Crime
Greek Publisher Anastasiadis Charged With Tax Evasion
A well-known Greek publisher who appears on television regularly has been charged with money laundering and tax evasion for having 5.5 million euros ($7.2 million) in the French bank BNP Paribas that a prosecutor said can’t be justified given...
Crime
Greek Prosecutor Probing Arms Contracts
Four defense contracts worth 7 billion euros ($9 billion) and 85 other state deals are being investigated by Greek prosecutors trying to root out possible fraud, the newspaper Kathimerini reported. The defense procurement deals were approved in 2001 by...
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
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...
Greece
Greeks Need To Know: Who Are The Dirty 30?
Lost off the radar screen as Greece sinks toward economic oblivion because of generations of greed, corruption, mismanagement, tax evasion, incompetence, inefficiency and a bloated public sector full of so much deadwood you could feed every fireplace in Europe...
Economy
Greek High Courts Wants Names of Corrupt Politicians
Greece’s Supreme Court said it wants to know if the country’s Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) has a list 30 of politicians, including former ministers, current lawmakers, local authority officials and general secretaries at ministries, who it is reportedly investigating...
Economy
Greek Prosecutors Say Middlemen Interfered in Their Cases
ATHENS – Two Greek financial prosecutors who earlier resigned after complaining about political interference with their work – and then quickly returned – have stated that politicians and business executives used go-betweens to pressure them to speed up or...
Economy
Greek Prosecutor Charges Customs Officials in Tax Case
ATHENS – With pressure mounting on Greece to go after tax evaders and an embarrassing turnaround for the government after two top prosecutors going after tax cheats first resigned over what they said was political interference only to quickly...
Economy
Greece’s Tax Evasion Prosecutors Quit, Blame Political Interference
ATHENS – As Greece continues to bury its workers, pensioners and poor with waves of taxes to keep the country from going bankrupt, the two prosecutors in charge of going after tax cheats costing the country more than $60...