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Greece Gets Access To Bank Accounts

As the government steps up its goal to collect from tax cheats, officials of the Financial Crimes Unit (SDOE) will have direct online access to Greek bank accounts as of March 19, looking for evidence that can be used,...

Papaconstantinou Relatives Won't Testify

The relatives of former Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, whose names were deleted from a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret deposits in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC that hasn't been checked for tax evasion have...

Greece Charges 3 Ex-Ministers For Hiding Wealth

Greece's intensified crackdown on corruption, which has already led to  life sentence for a former mayor and eight years in jail for a former intensified has now reached three more ministers who have been charged with failing to report...

Greece Mulls Incentives for Tax Cheats

After international lenders rejected a plan to let Greeks with undeclared income abroad return the money to Greece and pay only an 8 percent penalty, the government has now devised another scheme: giving the tax cheats incentive deposit their...

Lagarde List Untouched Until Venizelos Got It

Greek financial prosecutors said there is no evidence that a CD list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret deposits in a Swiss bank was tampered with during the time it was in the possession of former finance...

Lawmakers Get New Lagarde List CD

A CD containing the names of 2,065 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret accounts in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC that hasn't been checked for tax evasion suspects for 2 1/2 years was given to a parliamentary...

Political Feuds Snarl Lagarde List Probe

A Greek parliamentary committee probe into the handling of a list of Greeks with secret Swiss banks accounts by former finance minister George Papaconstantinou has stalled over infighting between rival political factions. Christos Markoyiannakis, a member of the ruling New...

Tax Evasion Wiping Out Real Estate Market

Unable or unwilling to collect $70 billion in unpaid bills of tax cheats, the Greek government’s turning to higher taxes for those who can’t evade them has pushed property taxes up 600 percent in less than three years. The Greek...

Two Ex-Ministers Didn't Declare Wealth

Former PASOK Socialist Defense Minister Yiannos Papantoniou and former New Democracy deputy Economy and Finance Minister Petros Doukas from the New Democracy Conservative party are to face charges in civil court they didn’t declare all their wealth, as required...

ELSTAT Chief Georgiou Faces Probe

Greek prosecutors have said they want to conduct a criminal inquiry into whether Andreas Georgiou, the head of the country's statistics agency ELSTAT, and two of his subordinates to determine whether they manipulated numbers to force the country...