Gavalas
Crime
Greece Admits Shielding VIP Tax Cheats
Greece's Finance Ministry has admitted what everybody in Greece already knew: the government has been playing favorites with VIP's and allowing them to dodge taxes, with inspectors checking with supervisors before deciding how to handle the case of people...
Crime
More Leniency For Tax Cheat Gavalas
For a second time in two months, Greek fashion designer Lakis Gavalas has been convicted of evading taxes, and for a second time has dodged jail. An Athens misdemeanors court on July 19 passed down a five-year suspended prison...
Greece
In Greece, Justice Really Is Blind
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras must awake each morning and say it really is good to be king. The King, after all, not only is above the law, he sets the law, and in the plutocratic oligarchy that is...
Crime
Fashion Designer Tax Cheat Off The Hook
Continuing to show leniency toward major tax cheats while hammering workers, pensioners and the poor with pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions, a Greek court on June 21 found fashion entrepreneur Lakis Gavalas guilty of owing some 17...