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Corruption Prosecutors Quit, Hand Over Cases

Ongoing investigators into a myriad of corruption cases in Greece are being turned over to new special prosecutors after the two men handling them, Spyros Mouzakitis and Grigoris Peponis - who had ruffled feathers with their aggressive stance against...

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...

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...

Greek Publisher Anastasiadis Charged With Tax Evasion

A well-known Greek publisher who appears on television regularly has been charged with money laundering and tax evasion for having 5.5 million euros ($7.2 million) in the French bank BNP Paribas that a prosecutor said can’t be justified given...

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...

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...

Greeks Need To Know: Who Are The Dirty 30?

Lost off the radar screen as Greece sinks toward economic oblivion because of generations of greed, corruption, mismanagement, tax evasion, incompetence, inefficiency and a bloated public sector full of so much deadwood you could feed every fireplace in Europe...

Greek High Courts Wants Names of Corrupt Politicians

Greece’s Supreme Court said it wants to know if the country’s Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) has a list 30 of politicians, including former ministers, current lawmakers, local authority officials and general secretaries at ministries, who it is reportedly investigating...

Greek Prosecutors Say Middlemen Interfered in Their Cases

ATHENS – Two Greek financial prosecutors who earlier resigned after complaining about political interference with their work – and then quickly returned – have stated that politicians and business executives used go-betweens to pressure them to speed up or...

Greek Customs Official Denies Involvement in Fuel Smugglers

ATHENS -  A top-ranking Greek Finance Ministry official who resigned under fire after charges he waived fines on some 3,500 gas stations for unlawful fuel trading denied any wrongdoing and said the penalties weren’t warranted because a government electronic...