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Economy
Greek Parliament Gets Lagarde List Case
The Greek Supreme Court has sent to Parliament the case file relating to the so-called Lagarde list of some 2,059 Greek with $1.95 billion in deposits in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC that still hasn’t been vetted for...
Economy
Greek-Swiss Bank Tax Deal Hits Snags
Although Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ government has yet to check a list of 2,059 Greeks with $1.95 billion in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC for possible tax evasion, Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras said Greece is still hoping to...
Greece
Samaras Stripping Greeks' Civil Liberties
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ plans to repeal laws granting citizenship to second-generation immigrants who were born in Greece, speak Greek and go to Greek school, and his embarrassing double jeopardy re-trial of an investigative journalist who revealed the...
Economy
Greeks Must Declare Foreign Bank Accounts
In yet another attempt to pursue possible tax evaders, and in the aftermath of failures to check secret bank accounts of Greeks in other countries, the Finance Ministry is sending out letters to 15,000 people who were found to...
Economy
Greeks On UK Bank Tax Haven List
As Greece is still investigating why the government didn’t examine a list of 2,059 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in HSBC’s Geneva branch in Switzerland for possible tax evasion, another list has emerged, showing 97 others have more...
Economy
Greek Parliament to Probe Lagarde List
Even as a Greek judge acquitted a journalist of violation of privacy laws after he published a list of 2,059 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in a Swiss bank account, the Parliament is being asked to investigate why...
Economy
Vaxevanis Says Rich Elite Rules Greece
As he faces trial on charges of violating privacy laws for publishing a list of 2,059 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in a Swiss bank who were never checked for possible tax evasion, investigative journalist Costas Vaxevanis has...
Economy
Lagarde List Leaked: Greek Politicians, Big Names
A closely-kept secret by the Greek government – the names of 1,991 people who made $1.95 billion in deposits in the Geneva, Switzerland HSBC bank branch – has been released by a Greek investigative journalist and immediately went viral...
Greece
Good Riddance, Venizelos, We Knew You Too Well
It’s almost impossible to overstate how much of a bloated opinion PASOK Anti-Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos has of himself, even as he is taking the party toward the dustbin of history. Three years ago, PASOK won the elections with...
Economy
Greek Prosectors Doubt Authenticity of Lagarde List
Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras reportedly is going to ask French officials to deliver the original list of 1,991 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in the Geneva branch of HSBC Bank to check for possible tax evasion after special...