A Greek journalist victim of 'list Lagarde'
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A Greek journalist victim of 'list Lagarde'

Athens : Greece | Oct 29, 2012 at 7:10 AM PDT
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End of September, the Greeks discovered, dumbfounded, this list of 2000 potential fraudsters ultimately did not been any investigation. In tax evasion, the Greek police may act expeditiously. Fifteen police arrested and released on Sunday 28 October, the journalist Kostas Vaxevanis, not because he did spend money abroad, but have published a list of Greeks have an account in Switzerland. An arrest warrant had been issued the day before, just after the release of the magazine Hot Doc, for violating the law on publication of private data. The list, containing over 2,000 names, is presented as the 'list Lagarde' waving Greece for several weeks. Christine Lagarde, Minister of the French economy was presented in October 2010 at his counterpart George Papaconstantinou, a CD-Rom containing a list of Greeks have an account with HSBC. The list comes from the same files that document brandished television in 2009 by former budget minister Eric Woerth. Greek politicians have not shown the document to the TV, and give the impression of having put in a drawer. Papaconstantinou had assured that he asked the financial police, the SDOE to investigate the twenty largest holders accounts on this list. His successor, Evangelos Venizelos, was brought to justice in early October a USB key containing the famous list, ensuring that no one had ever looked. And the current Minister of Finance, Iannis Stournaras can not find the original CD-Rom in his ministry. 'STOP THE TRUTH' End of September, the Greeks, who are about to undergo further cuts in wages and pensions, discovered, dumbfounded, this list of 2000 potential fraudsters ultimately did not been any investigation. The SDOE argued that the origins of the list does not allow its use by justice: it was given to the French court by a former employee
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