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Business
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....
Crime
Court Says No SDOE Bank Access
Greece's highest administrative court, the Council of State, in a preliminary finding, has ruled unconstitutional a proposal by the country's financial crimes squad, SDOE, to freeze bank accounts, stock holdings and properties of suspects linked to large scale cases...
Crime
Greece Gets Access To Bank Accounts
As the government steps up its goal to collect from tax cheats, officials of the Financial Crimes Unit (SDOE) will have direct online access to Greek bank accounts as of March 19, looking for evidence that can be used,...
Crime
Greek Tax Inspectors Vetted For Corruption
With the government anxious to track down tax cheats, Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras has asked his Internal Affairs Department to check the assets of 240 senior ministry and regional officials who have handled tax inspection in recent years in...
Economy
Greece Writes Off $57B For Tax Cheats
Under intense pressure from its international lenders, the Greek government said that after breaking repeated promises to do so, that this time it will chase tax cheats who owe 55.5 billion euros ($72.2 billion,) although the International Monetary Fund...
Economy
IMF Tells Greece: Collect Taxes Or Raise Them
Following a report from Greece’s creditors that shows tax collections are far off course despite big tax hikes, the International Monetary Fund has warned that unless revenues rise and tax cheats are caught that the government will be forced...
Crime
Greek Bank Account Checks For Tax Cheats
With tax revenues far off expectations despite big tax hikes, Greece now is going to probe the bank accounts of suspected tax cheats and those believed to involved in money laundering, corruption and other crimes.
That came in the wake...
Greece
Greece Fears Troika Wants Fast Firings
Inspectors from the Troika of Greece's international lenders will return to Athens next week as the uneasy coalition governments they will demand a picked-up pace of layoffs and firings to reduce the public workforce by 25,000 this year.
Worried about...
Economy
Greek Tax Audits Lag Far Behind Goals
As it continues to administer pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions on workers, pensioners and the poor in a desperate bid to keep cutting expenses, the Greek government is way behind a schedule to meet its targets for...
Crime
Greek Doctors Probed In Bribe Case
Looking for cash everywhere, Greece’s government is stepping up the fight against tax evasion and is investigating 11 state hospital doctors who couldn’t explain why they had 5.8 million euros ($7.75 million) in their bank accounts.
The Financial Crimes Squad...