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Crime
Papaconstantinou Says He Didn't Check Lagarde List
Former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou, set to be questioned over his role in the handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in a Swiss bank that hadn’t been checked for tax evaders, said he never...
Crime
Greeks Hide Accounts in Luxembourg, Lichtenstein
Greek 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...
Economy
Stournaras Says No More Heating Oil Help
With temperatures falling and many Greeks unable to afford heating oil because of huge tax increases on the fuel, Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras said the government can't afford to provide more oil subsidies to help the poor and told...
Crime
Papaconstantinou Says He Knows Bank List Tamperer
Former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou, who faces possible prosecution as investigators try to determine who removed the names of three of his relatives from a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in a Swiss bank...
Crime
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...
Crime
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...
Greece
Greece Girds for 2013: Recovery or Relapse?
With an exhausting 2012 behind him, and after ruling for half of it, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said he believes 2013 will be the year that Greece finally begins to recover from its crushing economic crisis - with...
Crime
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...
Cyprus
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...
Economy
Tsipras Says He's Greece's Hope Now
After narrowly losing the elections earlier this year and settling for becoming the major opposition party, Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras said if Greece’s uneasy coalition government fails, that his is poised to take over.
“We...