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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
Vaxevanis Says Greece Hiding Tax Evasion
A Greek journalist who was arrested for exposing the names of 2,059 people with $1.95 billion in deposits in a Swiss bank said the government moved swiftly to silence him because it is trying to cover up for rampant...
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...
Economy
Venizelos Blames Predecessors Over Lagarde List
PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos, blasted for failing to check on a list of 1,991 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in a Swiss bank, said it wasn’t his fault and blamed his predecessors, former Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, and...
Economy
Blaming Venizelos Over Swiss Bank List, Ragousis Quits PASOK
Angered that his party’s leader, who, as a former finance minister, failed to act on a list of 2,000 Greeks with 1.5 billion euros ($1.93 billion) in deposits in a Swiss bank to check for possible tax evasion, Yiannis...
Economy
Stournaras Says Greece Will Make It
With pessimism and gloom settling over Greece with another pending $14.6 billion in government spending cuts and more austerity measures looming, Finance Minister Yiannis Stournas said he believes that the country will survive and its economy come back.
Speaking to...
Economy
Lagarde, EU, Say Greece May Get More Time
Greece may get more time to reduce its deficit and impose more harsh austerity measures – but not more money – International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said after a meeting of EU finance ministers in Cyprus.
Prime Minister Antonis...