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Yiannos Papantoniou Facing Criminal Prosecution

The anti-corruption prosecutor, Eleni Raikou has begun with the criminal prosecution of the former PASOK Minister Yiannos Papantoniou for inaccurate declaration of income, with felony charges for the year 2010 and misdemeanor for 2009. Mr. Papantoniou's wife, Stavroula Kourakou faces similar...

Greek Expat's 150,000 Euros Wire Transfer Blocked

Greek bureaucracy has once again left people speechless with its love of the rule-book. The Greek Croesus Artistotelis Mistakidis appears to be its newest victim. Greek authorities are just now slowly recovering from the Lagarde list scandal. There may...

Lagarde List: Penalties Exceed 50 Million Euros

The Financial and Economic Crime Unit (S.D.O.E), after completing the first 150 audits of taxpayers who are included in the Lagarde list, has imposed penalty charges that exceed 50 million euros. The newspaper "TA NEA," invoking S.D.O.E sources claims that...

Greek Journalist Acquitted for Lagarde List Case

The Greek journalist, Kostas Vaxevanis, was unanimously acquitted for publishing the content of the Lagarde list. The court prosecutor that was assigned to the case suggested that Mr. Vaxevanis should be found guilty of publishing the Lagarde List in his...

Former Minister of Finance Taken to Special Court

The Deputy Public Prosecutor of the Supreme Court Anastasios Kanellopoulos submitted his motion to the Judicial Council of the Special Court, which essentially proposes the committal of former Finance Minister Georgios Papaconstantinou for the case of tampering and concealment...

Greece Tells Troika Cuts Not Needed

Frantic to avoid imposing more austerity measures after vowing not to do so, the Greek government has told its international lenders that it can bring in 2.2 billion euros ($2.94 billion) in revenues by going after tax cheats -...

Tax Evasion Charges for Former Greek Minister and his Wife

Yannos Papantoniou, the former Minister of Finances and National Defence and his wife Stavroula Kourakou, are accused of tax evasion. They will face charges for allegedly evading 3 million Euros in taxes between 2000 and 2010. According to the Lagarde...

Investigation on Lagarde List Continues

The finance minister Yannis Stournaras, has denied the rumors that the investigations into the Lagarde list are being shelved. The finance ministry insists that the Financial and Economic Crime Unit (S.D.O.E) will remain mostly responsible for the investigation for...

Acquitted Journalist Vaxevanis Tried Again

Kostas Vaxevanis , the Greek whistleblower journalist who embarrassed a Greek government that hadn't acted on a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts by publishing their names, went on trial again on Oct. 8 of violating their...

Vaxevanis' Lagarde List Trial Delayed

A second trial for Greek investigative journalist Kostas Vaxevanis, who was cleared last year of breaching privacy rights but is being prosecuted again on the same charge because the prosecution was unhappy he was acquitted, has been postponed to...