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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...
Crime
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...
Crime
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...
Economy
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...
Crime
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...
Crime
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...
Crime
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...
Crime
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...
Crime
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...
Crime
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...