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Economy
Greek Lawyers Says Vaxevanis Unfairly Prosecuted
The board of the Athens Bar Association (ABA) said it was surprised that a Greek investigative journalist was prosecuted on violation of privacy laws a day after he released a list of 2,059 Greeks with $1.95 in deposits in...
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
Survey Says! Germans Most Respected, Greeks Least Respected
ATHENS - As Greeks prepare to commit political suicide at the June 17 elections – a bullet in the head courtesy of the New Democracy Capitalists - PASOK Anti-Socialists who created the economic crisis and favor more austerity, or...
Economy
Greece’s Deal with the Devils: Did Anybody Read this Thing?
ATHENS – At least he didn’t say the dog ate the memorandum or go “hummana hummana hummana" while looking sheepish and wiping his face, like Jackie Gleason’s portrayal of Ralph Kramden confronted by wife Alice when he screwed up...
Economy
Greek Prosecutor Wants Papandreou Investigated
ATHENS – Former Prime Minister George Papandreou should be investigated to see if there was any wrongdoing in how he handled the country’s economic crisis and imposed waves of pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions and layoffs of public...