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Greece Admits Shielding VIP Tax Cheats

Greece's Finance Ministry has admitted what everybody in Greece already knew: the government has been playing favorites with VIP's and allowing them to dodge taxes, with inspectors checking with supervisors before deciding how to handle the case of people...

More Leniency For Tax Cheat Gavalas

For a second time in two months, Greek fashion designer Lakis Gavalas has been convicted of evading taxes, and for a second time has dodged jail. An Athens misdemeanors court on July 19 passed down a five-year suspended prison...

In Greece, Justice Really Is Blind

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras must awake each morning and say it really is good to be king. The King, after all, not only is above the law, he sets the law, and in the plutocratic oligarchy that is...

Fashion Designer Tax Cheat Off The Hook

Continuing to show leniency toward major tax cheats while hammering workers, pensioners and the poor with pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions, a Greek court on June 21 found fashion entrepreneur Lakis Gavalas guilty of owing some 17...