Tag Archives: Lagarde list

Greece’s top court, the Council of State, has ruled that all tax evasion cases from the Lagarde list examined after December 31.2012 have to be written off. This could cost the state estimated 50 million euros that will have to return to tax payers. The CoS ruling rejected the Greek …

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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 …

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The former head of powerful financial crimes units (SDOE), Ioannis Diotis, was handed down a 10-year suspended sentence. He was convicted of failing to investigate information on the so-called “Lagarde list” containing more than 2,000 names of potential tax evaders. Ioannis Diotis was handed down a suspended 10-year sentence this …

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Greece’s tax authorities prepare “raids German style” in the middle of the night in order to localize ‘black money’ and ‘undeclared assets’. The tax inspectors will knock on doors or ring the bells at companies or freelancers’ business addresses even in the middle of the night and conduct controls. The …

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“I wish we had ten Papastavrou!” It was former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras who had praised the morals of his close aide Stavros Papastravou, a lawyer consultant at the Prime Ministry, during a speech in the Greek Parliament. Now, one of the ‘ten’ the real Stavros Papastavrou has been summoned …

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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 …

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“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 …

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Dictators, arms dealers, ministers, movie stars, businessmen, shopkeepers, royalty, clothing merchants from 203 countries and territories, they all parked more that €100 billion to HSBC in Switzerland. The bank helped its clients dodge taxes and hide millions from the tax officers in their country. Not without a profit for the bank …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Scenes of unprescedented aesthetic demonstrating the elegant manners of Greek elected politicians took place during the interrogation of PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos by members of the parliamentary  committee investigating the two-year disappearence of the infamous Lagarde list with the names of 2,200 suspected of tax evasion. Insults even below the belt …

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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 …

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The voices of angry lawmakers could be heard in the corridors of the Greek Parliament. Inside the room where the parliamentary committee investigating the involvement of former finance minister George Papakonstantinou in the Lagarde list was examining a witness, blood was boiling and tension was high.         Markogiannakis, Kapernaros, Georgiadis, …

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After a tense parliament session on Thursday morning, Greece’s lawmakers decided to hold a single vote and set up four ballot boxes where MPs can cast their vote and decided who will face inquiry over the handling of infamous Lagarde list. The ballot boxes will open for two former finance ministers (Papaconstantinou, …

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I have been trying to make a clue about the infamous Lagarde list and the much too many usb memory sticks that have been copied and recopied again and again the assistants of government officials and “even destroyed”, according to the latest testimony by the former heads of Financial Crimes Units …

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I openly admit: I cannot make a clue. I have been following a morning magazine on television trying to unravel the skein of the Lagerde list and the much too many scenarios about who tampered it. There is the original CD handed by then French finance minister to her then Greek counterpart George …

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 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 …

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Where there is a political will, there is a way… According to Greek media reports, the intensive crosschecks in bank accounts abroad and tax declarations in Greece have prompted the Financial Crime Units (SDOE) to call on at least 1,400 people to justify the money they have transferred outside the country. The …

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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 …

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