March 25, 2015
Politics
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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February 25, 2015
Politics
“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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January 13, 2014
Politics
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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July 4, 2013
Politics
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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June 7, 2013
Politics
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 …
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January 22, 2013
Economy
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 …
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January 18, 2013
Politics
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 …
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January 17, 2013
Politics
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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January 8, 2013
Economy
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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January 2, 2013
Politics
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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November 2, 2012
Politics
Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis has been acquitted by an Athens court on Thursday night in a trial that lasted almost ten hours. The prosecutor had raised charges against Vaxevanis for breaching privacy after he published the names of 2,000 suspected tax evaders in his magazine HOT DOC. Vaxevanis was arrested last Sunday. …
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November 1, 2012
Politics
Coalition government party PASOK suffered serious injuries on Wednesday during the voting for the privatizations bill. Party leader Evangelos Venizelos saw some 15 MPs revolting against the party line. In fact he saw the rebellion happening from a distance, as he himself did not bother to attend a voting that …
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October 28, 2012
Politics
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 …
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October 27, 2012
Politics
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 …
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October 24, 2012
Politics
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 …
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October 2, 2012
Economy, Politics
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 …
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July 23, 2012
Economy
Athens Stock Exchange experiences sever losses on Monday morning as development in Greece, Spain and Italy lead to decline of all European markets and the Euro. As of 02:21 pm, the General Index of ASE is at 588.59 units recording losses of -6.70%. The banking sector is at -8.90%. One …
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June 1, 2012
Economy, Very Mix
Is this the BBC we know? On Wednesday night, during “Newsnight” programme presenter Jeremy Paxman had invited economist and Nobel winner Paul Krugan and former Greek finance minister George Papaconstaninou via live link from Athens to discuss about the Greek crisis and the economy. However right at the beginning of …
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February 8, 2012
Society
A riot police squad was called at the 6th floor of the Environment Ministry on Wednesday afternoon, as the PPC-unionists who had locked George Papaconstantinou in his office did not show a sign of surrender. A large group of unionists form GENOP-DEH, the Greek Public Power Company, had “occupied” the office …
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