He fell soft on a cloud pillow. A special court in Athens ruled that former Finance Minister Giorgos Papacontantinou had doctored the Lagarde List of suspected tax evaders but to a degree of misdemeanor. Papaconstantinou left the court with one-year suspended prison sentence. The original charge was on felony. With …

“I am innocent, I deny all charges,” former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou told the Special Court in Athens on the first day of his trial. The ex FinMin of George Papandreou government faces two felony charges in connection with the so-called Lagarde-List containing more than 2,000 names of Greek bank …

Former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou will be referred to “special court” and stands trial for deleting the names of four of his relatives from the infamous Lagarde-List containing the names of Greeks suspected of tax evasion. With votes 4:1 the judges of the Supreme Judicial Council of the Supreme Court …

A council of judges has ruled that the charges levelled against former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou in connection to the alleged tampering of a list containing the names of Greeks with deposits in Switzerland have not expired under the statute of limitations. The judges convened at the Supreme Court on …

This is the Greece we know very well! While the finance ministers seize the last cent from the low pensioner and the jobless, they erase the names of their relatives from a list of possible tax evaders. And while they demand a high price for every breath you take in …

The preliminary investigation committee of the Greek Parliament investigating the famous Lagarde List and the involvement of former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou ended – or not. The meetings of this committee were stormy anyway full of quarrels and under the belt knocks. Nevertheless, the chairman (Nea Dimocratia) of the committee …

234 lawmakers voted in favor of widen charges against former Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou. He is to face charges like breach of trust, that are a felony. Papaconstantinou is accused of failing to record the receipt of a CD containing the name sof 2,200 potential tax evaders with bank accounts …

After a marathon and stormy meeting, Greek lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to refer ex Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou to face parliamentary inquiry over allegations he tampered the Lagarde list and removed the names of three relatives from the list of Greek bank account holders at HSBC bank in Geneva.  A total of 265 …

 These are touching moments among eurozone finance ministers. According to UK daily the Guardian, Christine Lagarde sent an sms to her Greek counterpart George Papaconstantinou in summer 2011 – short after he was replaced from the post of Finance Minister. “We miss you!” Lagarde apparently wrote to the Greek finance minister who …

While George Papaconstantinou still enjoys family vacations in the Netherlands, coalition government and opposition parties clash with each other in Athens on the perspectives of the probe against the former finance minister. On Monday, the last day of 2012, a government proposal signed by 71 MPs was submitted to the Parliament. A proposal …

For former Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou the New Year’s Eve fire cracker went of earlier than planned. Not on upcoming Monday night but on Friday noon. Reason for the drama unfolding before our eyes, were the claims that two of his relatives had bank accounts at the HSBC, Geneva branch. Nothing …

A bombshell with a weight of at least one mega-tone was dropped in the picturesque city of Athens on Friday afternoon. Thus while Greek government officials have been dealing with the Troika on the left and the private Greek bond holders on the right. Economic prosecutor Grigoris Peponis requested in a letter to prosecutor of …

Is the 2005 Greek Eurovision winner, Helena Paparizou, heading to Lisbon for Eurovision? It seems that the Queen of Greek Pop is considering to represent Cyprus at the forthcoming 2018 Eurovision Song Contest, according to local media reports. Is the cat out of the bag? Will Helena Paparizou represent Cyprus …

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gave full coverage to former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and said that he ordered the ex FinMin to work out an emergency  contingency plan but not a Grexit plan. Speaking to the Greek Parliament after a question posed by PASOK leader Fofi Gennimatas, Tsipras said among …

With Greece suffering from economic suffocation and the risk to run out of cash in March, international creditors hint that the last bailout trance of €7.2billion would be paid as early as possible, if Athens starts adopting necessary reforms – ‘reforms’ in the sense of ‘austerity adjustment’, right? Greece needs …

Do you remember Papandreou’s government famous campaign to legalize semi-sheltered spaces (ημιυπαίθριοι) in houses and apartments against a fee of at least some €800? The campaign launched in 2010 by then Environment Minister Tina Birbili and Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou was much praised in 2010 and 2011 as a mean …

A devil’s week begins today for the Greek bipartisan coalition government, with the public sector in uproar, municipalities up in arms, the controversial multi-bill in the Parliament, a voting to prosecute former finance minister Papaconstantinou … Mayors have shut down the municipalities in protest and threaten with mass resignations if …

I have the feeling Greece tries to steal the media focus currently busy with Cyprus. Otherwise I have no logical explanation for  two news items coming from Greece. Maybe Greek authorities were alarmed to hear all these Cypriot citizens demanding “catharsis” for those who threw the country into such an …

Head of Greek privatisation fund, Takis Athanasopoulos, and the general secretary of Finance ministry Giorgos Mergos resigned on Saturday after the former managers of Public Power Company (DEH) were charged with breach of duty. Both Athanasopoulos and Mergos were on board of DEH. The head of Greece’s privatization fund, Takis …

Greek economic prosecutors are seeking felony charges against the former president of the Greek Statistics Authority Andreas Georgiou over  upwards manipulation of the Greek deficit in 2009 and thus with the aim to push the country into the IMF bailout mechanism. Apart from Georgiou  felony charges are also to be raised against the …