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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...

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...

Papandreou Won't Testify On Lagarde List

Former prime minister George Papandreou has said he won't appear before a parliamentary committee investigating a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that was never checked for tax evaders at a time his...

Papandreou May Be Called On Lagarde List

Greece's former Head of National Intelligence Service (EYP,) Costantinos Bikas, has been called to testify before a parliamentary committee investigating the removal of the names of three relatives of former finance minister George Papaconstantinou from a list of 2,602...

Greek Lawmakers Get Lagarde List

Greece's Financial and Economic Crime Unit (SDOE) has sent to a Parliamentary Preliminary Investigation Committee the list of 919 Greeks with in secret Swiss bank accounts that hasn't been checked for tax evasion for more than 2 1/2 years....

Greek Tax Cheat Breaks Withdrawn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...

Democratic Left Boots Two MP's

With PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos under challenge, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is losing support from his other coalition partner, the Democratic Left, after two of its members were ejected for saying they want an investigation of Venizelos...

Greece Probes Officials Over Lagarde List

Greek prosecutors have questioned two finance ministry officials close to former Socialist finance minister George Papaconstantinou, who is caught up in a tax scandal shaking Greek politics, judicial sources said on Jan. 4. Agence-France-Presse said the two officials worked in...

Journalist Who Leaked "Lagarde List" Arrested

Greek Police arrested the journalist who published the list with the names of 2,059 people who made $1.95 billion in deposits in the Geneva, Switzerland HSBC bank branch. The arrest took place at a house of a friend of the Greek journalist in...

Prosecutor Orders Arrest of Greek Journalist who Leaked Swiss Accounts List

Greek police are seeking to locate and arrest Costas Vaxevanis, the Greek journalist who published the list with the names of 1,991 people who made $1.95 billion in deposits in the Geneva, Switzerland HSBC bank branch. Greek police said that the...