Lagarde list

As Lagarde list (Greek λίστα Λαγκάρντ ) a list of names of suspected tax evaders Greek is called, which triggered several political scandals in Greece.

The list contains the account information of more than 2,000 Greek customers the Geneva private bank HSBC. The data were stolen by an employee of the bank. A disk containing the records has been delivered to their Greek counterparts Giorgos Papakonstantinou in 2010 by the then French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde.

Content and origin

Use was made of the data by either Papakonstantinou nor his successor as finance minister, Evangelos Venizelos. Papaconstantinou said he had forwarded a copy to the then chief of the Greek tax investigation and lost the original. The list did not appear until the beginning of October 2012 again - but in a slightly abbreviated form: Had the original Lagarde list still 2,062 entries, there were now only 2,059. It lacked the accounts of two cousins ​​dad Konstantinous and their spouses. This came to light when France Germany Greece the original list passed it a second time. The Greek parliament lifted then on 15 July 2013, the immunity Papa Konstantinous.

Publication

The Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis, editor of the tabloid magazine Hot Doc, published the list and was then detained by police and charged with theft of personal data, but acquitted in the fall of 2012.

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• On the list were the names of Leonidas Tzanis, a former Deputy Minister of the Interior (1999-2001) and Vlassis Kambouroglou. After publication of the list in October 2012 Leonidas Tzanis committed suicide; he hanged himself in his garage. Vlassis Kambouroglou, a businessman who was found dead a few days later in a hotel room in Jakarta. Kambouroglou was the former CEO of Drumilan International, a company involved in the sale of Russian Tor-M1 missile systems to Greece in 2004. He was the involvement in a corruption scandal accused, who had recently led to the arrest of former Defense Minister Giannis Sbokos on suspicion of corruption and money laundering.

• After the list was the wife of former finance and defense minister Giannos Papantoniou, Stavroula Kourakou in the HBSC bank a credit of 1.3 million euros. Since Papantoniou had this power in his asset declaration is not specified, an investigation against him was initiated.

• Athenian newspapers also reported one of the HSBC black money accounts in the amount of 550 million euros loud on the name Margaret Papandreou. The 89 -year-old mother of former Greek Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou was thus beneficiary of the most extensive account.