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Crime
Papantoniou Freed On 50,000 Euros Bail
Former Greek defense minister Yannos Papantoniou and his wife Stavroula Kourakou appeared in court on April 17 to testify in a case against them in which the government charges they failed to declare all their wealth, which is a...
Crime
Papandreou Refuses To Testify On Lagarde List
Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has for the second time sent a Parliamentary committee investigating a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts a note reiterating that he knew nothing about and that he won’t return from...
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...
Greece
Papandreou's Deposition Leaves Lawmakers Cold
Saying they weren't satisfied with a written deposition in which he claimed to know nothing about a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts that was in the hands of his appointed finance minister, a parliamentary committee again...
Crime
Venizelos Will Testify On Lagarde List
After being exempted from an investigation into why a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in secret Swiss bank accounts hadn't been checked for tax evasion - although he had it in his possession - former...
Crime
Court Says No SDOE Bank Access
Greece's highest administrative court, the Council of State, in a preliminary finding, has ruled unconstitutional a proposal by the country's financial crimes squad, SDOE, to freeze bank accounts, stock holdings and properties of suspects linked to large scale cases...
Crime
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,...
Crime
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...
Crime
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...
Economy
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...