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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
The owner and editor of a respected investigative magazine was acquitted Thursday on charges of breaching privacy laws in publishing the names of more than 2,000 Greeks believed to be holding accounts at a bank in Switzerland, in a case that tested...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Orestis Panagiotou/EPA Kostas Vaxevanis hates being the centre of attention. Moments before taking the stand in one of the most sensational trials in modern Greece on Thursday, the investigative journalist insisted he was not in the business of...
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Mail Online UK
| 8 months ago
1 November 2012 A Greek journalist on trial for revealing the names of more than 2,000 alleged tax cheats has called the case against him politically motivated and vengeful'...Commenting on the trial during a recess in a hearing at an Athens court...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
Greece will run out of money as early as the end of November, if it doesn't receive the scheduled bailout plan payment, according to the PM...He was arrested after publishing a list of 2,000 Greeks with Swiss bank accounts in his Hot Doc magazine. ...
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New Zealand Infotech Weekly
| 8 months ago
A magazine publisher has been acquitted of charges that he breached privacy laws by printing a list allegedly naming Greeks with bank accounts in Switzerland. The list has touched off a fierce debate in the nearly bankrupt country after governments...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Greek journalist Costas Vaxevanis has been acquitted of breach of privacy after publishing the names of 2,000 Greeks with Swiss bank accounts. He had been accused of breaking private data rules and faced up to two years in prison if convicted. But...
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CNN
| 8 months ago
Kostas Vaxevanis , who was arrested Sunday, a day after his Hot Doc magazine ran the names, is accused of violating the country's data protection law. Vaxevanis, who is editor of the magazine, has defended his decision to publish on the grounds that...
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The independent
| 8 months ago
The trial began today of a top investigative journalist who is facing jail for publishing a list allegedly containing the names of over 2,000 Greeks with bank accounts in Switzerland. The story has created a stir in a country that has appeared unable...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
Greeks with Swiss bank accounts, in a case that has exposed the debt-plagued Greek government to charges of a cover-up. Costas Vaxevanis, a 46-year-old veteran television journalist who now publishes a magazine, insists he was doing his job and has...
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Epoch Times
| 8 months ago
November 1, 2012 Costas Vaxevanis, a 46-year-old veteran investigative journalist who now publishes a magazine, exits a court in Athens after the beginning of his trial, on Nov. 1. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images) A Greek journalist who released...
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Merced Sun-Star
| 8 months ago
A magazine publisher went on trial Thursday for printing a list allegedly naming Greeks with bank accounts in Switzerland. The list has touched off a fierce debate in nearly bankrupt Greece about whether governments used it to check for possible tax...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
He then published the so-called Lagarde List in the weekly magazine he edits, Hot Doc. The Greek daily newspaper Ta Nea followed suit, devoting 10 pages to the document. French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde originally gave the list to the Greek...
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Epoch Times
| 8 months ago
November 1, 2012 Charges being leveled against Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis for publishing list of citizens with Swiss bank accounts are being labeled hypocritical. The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) , an organization with about 300,...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Greek lawyers launched their defence of a prominent journalist on Thursday charged with breaking private data rules after he published the names of more than 2,000 wealthy Greeks believed to be holding Swiss bank accounts. The printing of the "...
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Al Jazeera English
| 8 months ago
00 The trial of Costas Vaxevanis (centre) began in Athens on Wednesday [Reuters] A Greek journalist has appeared in court in Athens after publishing a list of 2,059 high-profile alleged tax-dodgers in the cash-strapped country.
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
Greece will run out of money as early as the end of November, if it doesn't receive the scheduled bailout plan payment, according to the PM...This move comes in amid public protests against government media censorship following two high-profile cases.
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Costas Vaxevanis blames ministers over Swiss account list 1 November 2012 Last updated at 02:54 ET Journalist Costas Vaxevanis has told the BBC that politicians should be prosecuted for keeping secret the names of Greeks with Swiss bank accounts...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Journalist Costas Vaxevanis has told the BBC that politicians should be prosecuted for keeping secret the names of Greeks with Swiss bank accounts...French authorities gave the list to their Greek counterparts two years ago. Greek officials have said...
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Epoch Times
| 8 months ago
October 31, 2012 Journalists shout as they march in central Athens during a 24-hour strike on Oct. 17. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images) The Greek investigative journalist and publisher of Hot Doc magazine, Costas Vaxevanis, will stand trial on...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Oct. 30 2012, 7:30 PM EDT Last updated Tuesday, Oct. 30 2012, 5:54 PM EDT Greece's arrest of a journalist who published a secret list of 2,000 people with Swiss bank accounts is a breathtaking attack on media...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
Greece will run out of money as early as the end of November, if it doesn't receive the scheduled bailout plan payment, according to the PM...Greek state television staff have begun work stoppages to protest what they say is increasing government...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Dimitri Messinis/AP A work stoppage at Greek state television interrupted broadcasts on Tuesday morning as the conflict between the government and the press about the reporting of the economic crisis spilled on to the screen. Instead of a chat show...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday advanced economies must continue fiscal consolidation to reduce debt long-term while emerging economies should loosen up fiscal and monetary policy to salvage their slowing growth.
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Guardian Unlimited
| 8 months ago
The then minister of finance, George Papaconstantinou, was handed a list of Greeks who held bank accounts abroad. This list was never investigated.' Photograph: John Kolesidis/Reuters/Corbis "The more laws a country has, the more corrupt it is," the...
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New Statesman
| 8 months ago
It seems that the Greek government has embarked on a crusade to silence dissident voices...The list, given by Christine Lagarde in 2010 to then Finance Minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou, remained unused. It subsequently became the focus of much anti-...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
We acted in the public interest We know the list is accurate. It refers both to legitimate accounts held by business people and individuals and to others that we believe were used for channelling funds for the purposes of tax evasion."
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Mail Online UK
| 8 months ago
29 October 2012 A Greek journalist was hauled before a court yesterday for revealing the names of more than 2,000 alleged tax cheats...At a time of unprecedented austerity in Greece, his exposure of allegations involving 1.6billion have taken on huge...
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Scoop
| 8 months ago
Vaxevanis published a special issue of his Hot Doc magazine, dedicated to this list. He was arrested in the northern suburbs of Athens on Sunday, minutes after he had tweeted his whereabouts and challenged police waiting outside to pick him up,...
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Qatar English Daily
| 8 months ago
A prominent Greek journalist who published the names of more than 2,000 wealthy Greeks with Swiss bank accounts appeared in court yesterday to stand trial on charges of violating data privacy laws. Costas Vaxevanis, editor of the Hot Doc weekly...
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The Independent
| 8 months ago
Suggested Topics A publisher appeared in court yesterday following the publication in his magazine of the so-called Lagarde list of more than 2,000 members of Greece's political and business elite who are said to be evading tax. Kostas Vaxevanis...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
Prosecutors on Monday set a fast-track trial date for the investigative journalist arrested last weekend after publishing a politically sensitive list of Greeks said to have Swiss bank accounts. The snowballing case has raised questions about press...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Demotix/Corbis/Stathis Kalligeris Greek journalists have warned that press freedom was under unprecedented attack, with critics being suspended or put on trial by a precarious coalition government struggling to push through an economic austerity...
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Sky News
| 8 months ago
A Greek journalist arrested for publishing the names of more than 2,000 Greeks with Swiss bank accounts has appeared in court charged with breach of privacy. Kostas Vaxevanis, a celebrated investigative journalist and publisher of the Hot Doc...
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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
A Greek publisher appeared in court Monday following the publication in his magazine of a list of the names of more than 2,000 Greek residents with Swiss bank accounts, a case that has caused political controversy during the country's economic crisis.
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The Daily Telegraph
| 8 months ago
Swiss bank accounts the Athens government has been accused of trying to cover up. Costas Vaxevanis, a veteran television journalist who is editor of the Hot Doc magazine, appeared in court in Athens after the list was published in its Saturday issue.
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Mail Online UK
| 8 months ago
29 October 2012 A Greek magazine editor was arrested live on national radio yesterday for publishing the names of 2,000 'tax evaders' from Greece's business and political elite. Kostas Vaxevanis was giving a radio interview in Athens when officers...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 8 months ago
Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis is taken by police officers to the public prosecutor after naming 2,000 alleged tax evaders. Photograph: Georgia Panagopoulo/AFP/Getty Images Greece is in a tax evasion crisis. Using a variety of sources I estimated...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 8 months ago
Greece A Greek publisher has appeared in court following the publication in his magazine of a list of the names of more than 2,000 Greek residents with Swiss bank accounts, a case that has caused political controversy in the crisis-hit country...The...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Kostas Vaxevanis, editor of the Greek magazine Hot Doc, published the so-called "Lagarde list." It's an electronic file given in 2010 by then French finance minister Christine Lagarde to the Greek government. It names 2,000 Greeks with Swiss accounts...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
Swiss bank accounts that the Athens government has been accused of trying to cover up. Costas Vaxevanis, a veteran television journalist who is editor of the Hot Doc magazine, published the list in its inaugural issue on Saturday. Greece in 2010 by...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis leaves the prosecutor's office following his arrest over the publishing of the so-called Lagarde list. Photograph: Alexandros Beltes/EPA A magazine editor in Greece will appear in court after publishing the names of...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
An investigative journalist in Greece was arrested Sunday after he published a list of more than 2,000 names of Greeks with Swiss bank accounts. Costas Vaxevanis was arrested on charges of violation of privacy, and then was quickly released, after he...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
Demonstrators shout slogans during a demonstration against the government's austerity measures in central Athens. (AFP Photo / Aris Messinis) While Greece claims the deal on its new rescue package is nearly final, the troika will reportedly require...
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The Independent
| 8 months ago
The Troika of lenders overseeing Athens' progress in meeting its reform programme was today reported to be pressing for a new Greek debt write-off to help ease the country's deepening financial crisis, despite stiff opposition from Germany. Der...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
The dramatic moves, which were being followed by tens of thousands of Greeks on the Internet, come days before Greece 's European partners are to meet to decide whether to grant tens of billions of euros in new aid to the financially struggling...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Mr Vaxevanis says the list he published is the same one that was given by the then French finance minister Christine Lagarde to her Greek counterpart. Some of those named, said to include many prominent Greeks, are suspected of using the accounts for...
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
Swiss accounts were stolen that year, the British bank has said, potentially exposing many international clients to prosecution by tax authorities, if they failed to declare the assets in their home countries.
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
Greek police arrested the editor of a weekly magazine for publishing a list of more than 2,000 names of wealthy Greeks who have placed money in Swiss bank accounts , police said on Sunday...It is named after International Monetary Fund chief...
