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Greek Lawmakers Get Lagarde List

99D70954CB6676A74A21C205A5164543Greece’s Financial and Economic Crime Unit (SDOE) has sent to a Parliamentary Preliminary Investigation Committee the list of 919 Greeks with in secret Swiss bank accounts that hasn’t been checked for tax evasion for more than 2 1/2 years. The original list was said to have 2,062 names but there was no explanation for the discrepancy.
It is called the Lagarde List, named for former French finance minister Christine Lagarde who gave it to former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou. He said it disappeared but the committee is investigating him in a bid to find out who removed the names of three of his relatives.
He has denied any wrongdoing and the committee said his relatives appeared to have properly declared their incomes to tax authorities, raising the question of why their names would have been removed.  SDOE sent the committee a table for them to be able to follow the bank sheets and the amounts for each depositor. The accounts are in the Geneva branch of HSBC bank.
SDOE has organized the names of Lagarde list according to amounts. The name Maria Panteli appears first and shows she has $562,896546 in the bank. Panteli declared that she is not the account owner but that it belongs to a hedge fund owned by Sabby Mionis. The next names are Solomon Levis, with $557,938,829 and Penelope Sapountzi (Sapountsis,) with $108,586,482. The Mionis appears, with an account of $80,619,625.
The first 79 on the list all have more than $10 million in the bank, and 451 have more than $1 million. Of Papaconstantinou’s relatives, Symeon Sikiaridis is at 391 with 1,226,899, his wife Eleni Papakonstantinou is next with the same amount and Andreas Rossonis is at 919, showing no deposits.
The Ministry of Finance’s former Secretary General, Dimitris Georgakopoulos revealed that in 2010 he had received an offer for Greece to buy the names, that eventually surfaced on a bigger list of depositors stolen by a bank employee, and that the seller wanted $1 million. He said he doesn’t remember who made the offer but that he told Papaconstantinou.
Georgakopoulos said a partner, Leonidas Giannikopoulos had made all the contacts. The committee decided to call Giannikopoulos to testify about the claim. SDOE forwarded to the committee all the documents sent to the Hellenic Bank Association and the bank branches so as to show how to collect the data needed. Among other data, the committtee wants bank accounts, banking movements, investment portfolios, active safe deposits boxes, loans, descriptives of checks, and gold purchases.

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