Giorgos Papaconstantinou
Greece
Lagarde List Scandal: Former Greek Socialist FinMin States he is Being Made a 'Scapegoat'
Former Greek socialist PASOK finance minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou is to stand before the court on Wednesday morning over charges of allegedly tampering with the Lagarde list that contained the names of more than 2,000 affluent Greeks with cash deposits...
Greece
86 Names Missing from 'Lagarde List'
The notorious "Lagarde List" should include a total of 2,148 names and not the 2,062 that are listed so far, according to a report in Ta Nea newspaper.
The Lagarde List is a spreadsheet containing over 2,000 names of possible...
Greece
Collision 'Underwater'
A court file that was sent to the Greek Parliament yesterday evening, June 18, appears to have opened Pandora's box. Reportedly, the file states that PASOK’s leader, Evangelos Venizelos, and former PASOK Finance Minister, Giorgos Papaconstantinou, are criminally liable for...
Crime
Ex-SDOE Chief Copied Lagarde List
A former head of the Greek Financial Crimes Squad SDOE- refuting his own earlier testimony - has told a parliamentary committee investigating the handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that...
Crime
SDOE Pushed On Lagarde List Report
Tired of foot-dragging by Greece's Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) in delivering a report on a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts, members of a Parliament committee investigating it said they want it produced.
The panel is trying to...
Crime
Greek Tax Cheat Breaks Withdrawn
After hostile reaction, the Greek government said it would not go ahead with plans to give tax cheats an 80 percent discount on fines they would have to pay for breaking the law, including some 2,062 people with $1.95...
Greece
Papaconstantinou Blames Aides for Lost Depositor List
Former Greek Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou has defended his handling of the now infamous list of Greek depositors at the Geneva branch of HSBC by telling Parliament that he asked the Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) to investigate for possible...
Economy
Bidding Concludes for Former Athens Airport
The first part has ended in the competition to develop the area of the former international airport of Athens, the Hellinikon.
''Participation in the first part of the competition by important investors specialized in this type of work constitutes a...