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Lagarde List Untouched Until Venizelos Got It

Greek financial prosecutors said there is no evidence that a CD list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret deposits in a Swiss bank was tampered with during the time it was in the possession of former finance...

Greek Tax Evasion Growing, Fines Ignored Too

While the Greek government has vowed – yet again – to crack down on tax cheats costing the country more than $70 billion, tax evasion is rising, especially among professionals who are keeping taxes they collect from customers and...

Greece Offers Breaks To Tax Debtors

Taking a cue from banks who are offering better terms to customer who can’t pay their loans and credit cards, Greece is planning to offer beleaguered taxpayers buried under doubled income and property taxes  to pay what they prove...

Tax Hikes Backfire, Greece's Revenues Plummet

Despite big tax hikes as part of austerity measures demanded by international lenders, tax revenues fell precipitously in January, with the Greek Finance Ministry reporting a 16 percent decrease from a year earlier, and a loss of 775 million...

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...

Greek MP's OK Bank List Probe of Papaconstantinou

By a wide margin, the Greek Parliament in the early morning hours of Jan. 18 voted to have  former finance Giorgos Papaconstantinou investigated over charges of removing the names of three relatives from a list of Greeks with secret...

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...

Papaconstantinou Says He Didn't Check Lagarde List

Former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou, set to be questioned over his role in the handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in a Swiss bank that hadn’t been checked for tax evaders, said he never...

Papaconstantinou Says He Knows Bank List Tamperer

Former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou, who faces possible prosecution as investigators try to determine who removed the names of three of his relatives from a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in a Swiss bank...

Lagarde List Shows Runaway Tax Evasion

An initial inquiry into a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC bank that has caused a political furor shows many are suspected of tax evasion, the newspaper Kathimerini reported. The...