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Lagarde List Shows Runaway Tax Evasion

An initial inquiry into a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC bank that has caused a political furor shows many are suspected of tax evasion, the newspaper Kathimerini reported. The...

Battle Lines Drawn Over Lagarde List Probe

A showdown is building over a pending investigation of former finance minister George Papaconstantinou’s handling of a list of 2,000 Greeks with deposits in secret accounts in a Swiss bank between the government and the major opposition party Coalition...

Former Greek FM Assails Parliament's Probe

Former Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, indicted by Greek lawmakers who voted to have Parliament investigate whether he removed the names of three relatives from a list of depositors in secret Swiss bank accounts, has blasted the move as an...

Former Greek FM Faces Bank List Probe

Facing an investigation into whether he tampered with a list of more than 2,000 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret accounts in a Swiss bank by removing the names of three relatives, former Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said...

The 12 Events That Bent Greece In 2012

The world was supposed to end in 2012 – on Dec. 21 for you Mayan calendar believers and doomsday cultists – and for many Greeks it seemed like it did. Like the Flogging Molly song, it was the worst...

Papaconstantinou Blames Venizelos Over Lagarde List

Former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou, who was ejected from the PASOK Socialist party after charges emerged that the names of three of his relatives were removed from a list of more than 2,000 Greeks with deposits in a...

Greece Gets Swiss Bank List Again

Greece's Finance Ministry said French authorities have once again given it details of Greeks with bank accounts in Switzerland for use in investigating possible tax evasion, after an original list was ignored, misplaced and discredited. A ministry statement said the...

No Papandreou Link to Bank List Found

Margaret Papandreou, mother of former prime minister George Papandreou, has no connection to a list of 2,059 Greeks with deposits in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC bank that hasn’t been checked for possible tax evader, prosecutors have declared. Earlier...

Financier Says Margaret Papandreou Not On Bank List

A Greek-Israeli businessman has joined former Prime Minister George Papandreou, and the former Premier’s mother, Margaret, in denying Greek media reports that she was linked to a list of 2,059 Greeks with $1.95 billion in accounts in a Swiss...

Papandreou Denies Mother On Swiss Bank List

Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and his mother have denied reports in the Greek media that she's behind the name of a civil servant with 550 million euros ($714 million) in deposits in a Swiss bank, with the...