France will send again the so-called Lagarde-list to Greece after a formal request by the Greek Finance Ministry. A source from French Finance Ministry said on Thursday that in fact Paris has already sent the list to Athens via the administrative way. The moment the list contains information about taxpayers …

Greek Journalist Kostas Vaxevanis was arrested on Sunday morning at a friend’s home for publishing 2,059 names of Greek HSBC-account holders whose names were on so-called Lagarde-List.  The journalist wrote on his Twitter account during his arrest: “@KostasVaxevanis They’re coming in the house with a prosecutor now. They are arresting …

Unbelievable and ridiculous! While other countries sought to locate suspected tax dodgers whose names were on so-called “Lagarde-List”, Greece is seeking for the journalist who published the 2,059 names – and thus with an arrest warrant! On Saturday evening and just hour after the print edition of HOT DOC was in …

Monthly magazine HOT DOC managed the impossible: To get what it seems to be the content of the long-missing and infamous Lagarde-list containing the names of 2,059 Greeks who had an account in the HSBC bank, Geneva, Switzerland. More than 2,000 excel-files expose the names of bank account holders. HOT DOC does not expose …

Members of the parliamentary committee investigating the whereabouts of  Lagarde’s list with the names of 1,991 Tax evaders could not believe their ears.  Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, who got the list by Lagarde in October 2011, told them on Wednesday morning: “The original file [the list] and the accompanying letter …

I would like to kindly ask KTG-readers to search among all the items laying on their office desk – drawers included. Greek government is seeking at least one USB stick containing the names of almost 2,000 Greeks with large deposits in HSBC, Geneva, Switzerland. The case is taking a tragicomic …

A leftist economist in the chair of the International Monetary Fund that surpresses and rains the poor and imposes strict austerity measures? Former SYRIZA finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos is listed among the candidates to replace Christine Lagarde as Managing Director at the International Monetary Fund. As Lagarde is to leave …

Early repayment of IMF loans was not the only topic between Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and managing director of the international Fund Christine Lagarde on the sidelines of the spring meeting of the Fund and the World Bank. It was the Greek cinema and most likely the film “Adults …

Managing Director of International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, urged the countries of the European South to proceed with the famous “structural reforms” in order to combat the high rates of youth unemployment. Of course, she forgot that the reforms the IMF enforced to these countries sent thousands of Greeks, Portuguese …

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 …

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visited the International Monetary Fund and had a meeting with Managing Director Christine Lagarde in Washington DC. After the meeting, the Fund said Tsipras and Lagarde “are committed to working for Greece to return to growth and exit official financing next year.”  Tsipras said he is …

The International Monetary Fund participate in the Greek program only if the country’s debt is judged as sustainable, the Fund’s managing director Christine Lagarde said in an interview to representatives of leading European newspapers. Additionally, she said talks over the Greek debt must first be completed before the IMF decides …

Greek publisher and journalists Kostas Vaxevanis was briefly detained after  the wife of Greece’s central banker Yannis Sournaras filed a lawsuit against him for slander. A day earlier, Vaxevanis newspaper had alleged that Stournaras’ wife was using her husbands’ influence to acquire state contracts for the public relations company. A …

Managing Director of International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, said that “Greece doesn’t need debt haircut for the time being,” right after the meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Wednesday. What needed is “debt restructuring and interest rate cuts on bailout loans.” Stressing the need of reforms, Lagarde …

Just a couple of days before another crucial Eurogroup meeting on Greece, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde sent a letter to all 19 eurozone finance ministers asking them to begin talks on Greek Debt Relief “immediately, or risk losing IMF participation on the Greek program. …

“In short term, the Primary Surplus 3,5% of GDP might be achievable with heroic efforts by the Greek people, but it is highly unrealistic that it can by maintained on long term,” Managing Director of International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde  said during her press conference in Washington at the Spring …

In a sharp tone the office of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras replied to the letter of IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde that was uploaded on the IMF’s official website on Sunday evening. “Nonsense is indeed the delay of the Review talks,” the PM’s office said in a statement issue …

Managing Director of International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, replied to the letter sent on Saturday by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras not with a letter but with a Press Release posted on the IMF’s official website. In order to “enhance transparency of dialogue”, you know. Christine Lagarde defends the view …

The International Monetary Fund is apparently concerned about its image. “I really don’t like it when we’re portrayed as this draconian, rigorous, terrible IMF,” Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Thursday in an online news conference. “We don’t want draconian measures to apply to Greece, which has already made a …

Welcome to the real world! For one more indirect time the International Monetary Fund “admits” what it has been wrong in its economic policies. And tries to find out what went wrong. It sees no growth, but bleak future. And keeps the whole problem on a pure academic level.  Speaking …