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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...
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Papaconstantinou Probe Gets Fast Track
The Greek government isn’t wasting time going after former finance minister George Papaconstantinou over his handling of a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts. A Parliamentary committee is expected to be appointed on Jan. 21 to look...
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Greek Politics: The Worst Show on Earth
As political freak shows go, you just can't beat Greece, especially when the Three-Ring Circus known as the Parliament in session, if only to see workers paid thousands of euros a month walking around handing out glasses of water...
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SYRIZA Spokesman Says Venizelos "Big Liar"
The heated Parliamentary debate that ended in a vote to investigate former finance minister George Papaconstantinou over the removal of three of his relatives names from a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts is still going on.
Panos...
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Greek MP's OK Bank List Probe of Papaconstantinou
By a wide margin, the Greek Parliament in the early morning hours of Jan. 18 voted to have former finance Giorgos Papaconstantinou investigated over charges of removing the names of three relatives from a list of Greeks with secret...
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Diotis Says He Didn't Doctor Lagarde List
The former head of the Greek Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) chief Yiannis Diotis, in a written statement to prosecutors, admitted that he made a copy of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in a Swiss...
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Juncker Blasts "Unpatriotic" Greeks With Money Abroad
Eurozone chief Jean-Claude Juncker has castigated wealthy Greeks and those who hide their income in secret bank deposits outside the country and being unfaithful to their country at a time when many Greeks are suffering big pay cuts, tax...
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Gap Shows Up in Lagarde List USB Stick
The convoluted case of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret accounts in a Swiss bank that hasn't been checked for possible tax evasion took another bizarre turn with a report that the names of three...
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Troika Nixes Amnesty for Foreign Deposits
As Greece struggles with growing reports of Greeks with deposits in foreign banks in Switzerland, Luxembourg and Lichtenstein – and possibly other countries – that haven’t been vetted for possible tax evasion, the country’s international lenders have rejected a...
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Papaconstantinou Says He Knows Bank List Tamperer
Former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou, who faces possible prosecution as investigators try to determine who removed the names of three of his relatives from a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in a Swiss bank...