German regional state of North-Rhine Westphalia handed out to Greece files containing more than 10,588 data – that is Swiss bank accounts – of suspected tax dodgers. The data is from one Swiss bank but the name had not been revealed. The data on tax evaders was reportedly bought by …

“Because these CDs have been classified as products of industrial espionage by the Swiss banks.” This is what Deputy Finance Minister Giorgos Mavraganis replied to a question posed by members of main opposition party, left-wing SYRIZA. “For the acquisition of such CDs there have been also issued arrest warrants,” Mavraganis …

Bankers in Switzerland are not willing to cooperate with the Greek authorities asking the opening of potential bank accounts of members of the Parliament. According to Proto Thema, bankers in Switzerland cited the famous Swiss “banking secrecy”. Before the elections in June, former parliament speaker Philippos Petsalnikos had asked all MPs to authorize …

Banks in Greece are reportedly set to freeze mortgage rates for one year and will bear the cost of containing interest on loans to the level it was at end-March. Banks are stopping any further rises in mortgage rates, freezing interest rates at a date reportedly set for March 31. …

Economic prosecutors raided the branch of UBS Swisss bank in Athens, confiscated the bank archives and identified 200 bank accounts involved in tax evasion. According to Greek media, the cross-check of the bank accounts was based on the data Greek authorities have recently received by the German Federal State of …

Swiss banker Jean-Claude Oswald, one of the key suspects in the Siemens cash-for-contracts scandal and in connection to allegedly corrupt arms deals is in custody in Greece, Greek media report on Monday. Although Oswald holds the French citizenship and the Swiss refused to extradite him to Greece, the Greek authorities …

A third bank, Piraeus Bank, requested for Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) on Friday, after the Eurobank and Alpha bank, Greek media report on Saturday. Citing sources from the banking sector, Greek media report that all four systemic Greek banks have submitted requests for ELA funding from the Europeran Central Bank, …

“One of the first laws to be tabled in Parliament, immediately after the election, will be one that regulates the issue raised by the developments in the Swiss Franc and the 70,000 Greek mortgage borrowers,” the press office of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said in a statement. The statement added …

Swiss chocolates bought in Swiss Francs? Oh, no! Or “much better,” after all? How does the lifting of euro cap by Swiss National Bank affect the Greek debt? I asked this question to economist “Cheshire Cat” and here is his analysis! Doors open wider for Merkel and Tripras to do …

Bank of Greece sources confirmed to several media that two Greek banks made a request for Emergency Liguidity Assistance (ELA) funding from the Bank of Greece in December. However, they did not confirm the amount of liquidity that it was asked, neither did they disclose the names of the banks. …

Swiss politicians from the far-right spectrum emerged from the melted chocolate and cheese fondue pots and created an anti-Greek poster in order to attack their own finance minister, Ursula Gut, Finance Minister of the Zurich Canton from FDP party. Aposter that features a finance minister as a cheater.  “Doing tricks like the …

More than 50,000 Greeks took a breath of relief upon the news that the Swiss National Bank (SNB) decided to peg the Swiss Franc (CHF) to the euro. The 50,000 Greeks are borrowers who got their loans – most for real estate purchases – on Swiss Franc and not in …

After a marathon deposition of 20 hours, former Defense Minister Yiannos Papantoniou was remanded in custody late on Tuesday. Handcuffs were passed also to his wife Stavroula Kourakou. Both face charges for money laundering of 2.800.000 Swiss Francs (2.4 million euros) from kickbacks from the time he was Defense Minister …

Revenues for the Greek state from the so-called tax evaders’ lists of Lagarde and Borjens did not turned out as high as expected. According to official data submitted to Parliament by the General Secretariat of Public Revenues, controls on both lists with the names of Greeks with bank accounts in …

What??? Greek businessmen took bank loans and instead o investing them they pushed them abroad in the safety of foreign banks? I don’t believe such immoral things can happen in Greece. Or can they? Reality suggests that they unfortunately can. During the parliament debate on corruption, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras …

Greek tax investigators raided the home of former local UBS bank boss in Athens in the context of  tax evasion probe based on account data acquired via Germany. The former UBS boss in Athens was also chairman of the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund where he was appointed in 2013 by …

The Greek government signed a combat-the- tax-evasion deal with the German Federal State of Northrhine-Westfalia. The Germans will help the Greeks with know-how, staff training and data sharing. Based on the agreement conditions, 50 Greek tax officers will go to NRW and get the appropriate training to combat one of …

Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf turned down the proposal of her Greek counterpart Yiannis Stournaras to impose taxes on Greeks’ bank accounts and transfer the money to Athens. Currently in the Greek capital, Widmer-Schlumpf told Stournaras that Switzerland does not do such deals any more, focusing instead on automatic information …

A ‘mega bomb’ exploded on Saturday in Athens when a weekly newspaper with front page “Testimony Burns 3 Ministers” claimed that two former ministers and the current parliament speaker have been alledgedly involved in money laundering scandal.   In its exclusive story Real News  refers to the written testimony of a real estate …

Greek Finance Ministry tries to estimate the amount Germany should pay to Greece as reparations for damages, atrocities and enforced loans during the World War II, alternate Finance Minister Christos Staikouras briefed the Parliament. According to estimations of the team in charge of the case, the amount for reparations reaches almost …