Lagarde list

Years after the tax fraud scandal with the Swiss bank accounts known as the "Lagarde list" ignited public indignation in poverty-stricken and financially bankrupt Greece, the matter has taken a new twist as the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia...

A file with about 500,000 bank account records of all those persons, included in the so-called "Lagarde list" was delivered on Tuesday evening by the secretary-general of the Greek cabinet, Mihalis Kalogirou to Chief Prosecutor Elias Zagoraios. The record, to...

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 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...

The government intends to crack down on tax evasion by adopting best practices from other countries, Greek Alternate Finance Minister Tryfon Alexiadis said in Parliament on Tuesday, during the debate on the government's policy statements. Among others, he announced plans...

Investigations into the notorious Lagarde list, that includes names of Greek persons and businesses with deposits in Swiss bank accounts, has brought in approximately 80 million euros for the Greek state, according to Kathimerini newspaper. Out of 1,275 people and business that...

Four Greek prosecutors took testimony from the former HSBC employee Hervé Falciani in Paris on Friday, who in 2008 stole data from around 130,000 bank customers, as part of their investigation into Greek bank account holders. The list, which in...

The Greek authorities' process of auditing suspected tax evaders is very slow, while the number of potential tax evaders is reaching 1.38 million. According to a report in Greek newspaper "Kathimerini," financial prosecutor Panayiotis Athanasiou has written a 25-page report...

Two ongoing corruption cases sent to Greek Parliament -- one relating to the Siemens scandal and one to the so-called 'Lagarde list' -- are to be "bumped up" the queue of cases pending and examined as a priority in...

One of Greece's top businessmen, Ellaktor Managing Director Leonidas Bobolas, appeared before a public prosecutor after his arrest by the Financial Crime Unit today, accused of major tax evasion but was subsequently released after paying the sum of 1.8 million euros,...