Resurfaced "Lagarde List" of wealthy Swiss-bank-account-possessing Greeks linked to Deaths

[Ghost Dog]

... Apparently, it had been "missing," according to a Financial Times article from a few days prior, and current finance minister Yannis Stournaras had vowed to track it down.

From the FT:

Yannis Stournaras, the finance minister, told the FT on Sunday that he would pursue the issue of the missing CD with Greek depositors names “as a priority”.

“I first learnt of its existence last week from the newspapers?.?.?.?but if SDOE can’t track it down, then we’ll ask our European partners for another copy,” Mr Stournaras said.

This provided the impetus for Venizelos to hand over the list to Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras last Tuesday, saying he had already made Greece's financial crimes unit, SDOE, aware of it, as reported by Kathimerini.

Venizelos was given the list by his predecessor, former finance minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou, who received it from Christine Lagarde in 2010, when she was serving as France's finance minister.

Immediately after Samaras received the list from Venizelos, Yiannis Sbokos, a former Greek minister involved in defense, was arrested by SDOE over financial corruption.

Leonidas Tzanis, a former Greek minister who had been under investigation, was found hanged in his home last Friday. The Press Association reports that "the official said Mr Tzanis's death is being treated as suicide but no suicide note has been found."

Now, today, Vlassis Kambouroglou, a wealthy Greek businessman in the defense industry, has been found dead in a hotel room in Jakarta, Indonesia...

/... http://www.businessinsider.com/greek-men-on-lagarde-list-found-dead-2012-10#ixzz28n5ytYjY

[sabrina 1]

1. Tragic, regardless of what they may have done. I hope they have not been murdered to

try to silence them. But nothing would surprise me regarding those who have taken over this world. They are ruthless. What would two more lives be to them?

For their families, it is must be devastating.

[tama]

2. Hmm...

IMF boss making many enemies by leaking a list of Swiss bank accounts with Names to Greek politicians... the ranks of the financial elite are breaking...

[Po_d Mainiac]

3. Last Wednesday's version

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1116&pid=23414

[Ghost Dog]

5. Yes. 1,991 names. This is the HSBC list we know of already:

... The deposits were made into the Geneva branch of HSBC and according to Keep Talking Greece the data also contained the name of 24,000 alleged tax dodgers in various European countries. Just 20 of the Greeks accounted for deposits in excess of one billion euros, or $1.29 billion, but it was not revealed if they had paid taxes on it.

The government is keeping the list secret. The CD was stolen by a bank employee and Lagarde spread the information to other European countries which modified their laws to “legalize access and usage of stolen data.”

In the meantime, the government is trying to keep the list secret to prevent another embarrassing gaffe after the names of 33 politicians, including seven former ministers, said to be under review to explain huge sums in their bank accounts and whether they evaded taxes, was leaked to media sources and put on the Internet...

Question is, whether the Greek 'authorities' planned to do anything about this and if so what?

[Po_d Mainiac]

7. Also

How much was IGG's, and if so who else (ouside of Geece's borders) got a piece of the action?

[bemildred]

10. The greek "authorities" are likely well represented on the list. nt

[jerseyjack]

4. What ever happened to the list of U.S. citizens with illegal Swiss accounts?

Was Romney's name among them? Did he get amnesty in the 2009 offer?

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. The link says "possible suicides"

and really does provide a clearer picture of what is happening.

Then there is this:
Meanwhile, the "Lagarde List" doesn't just contain names of Greek tax evaders. It's a list of closer to 22,000 names of wealthy people from various EU member states with Swiss bank accounts. The implication is that wealthy elites from other countries could be revealed in a corruption probe as well.


One could hope others would be inspired by the bank person who disclosed the info.

[Ghost Dog]

8. Yes. Follow links to get the picture.

The big-time, well-connected (or self-connected) tax evaders still expect to get away with it entirely, you know. Especially those rat-fighting to defend the abuse of such positions of such privilege based on political party-politicscronyism.

(But then, I'm thinking here of what's observably evident in the Spanish case I can see with my own eyes...)

[center]

Recently-resigned ex-Head Honcho of the Madrid regional government for the PP Esperanza Aguirre apparently enjoying a gift from a certain Swiss bank...
/... http://elpais.com/diario/2011/12/11/eps/1323588409_850215.html [/center]

[mother earth]

9. Thanks for posting this, Ghost Dog, K & R. Interesting politicians and financial ministers are

among those named...from Greece...and most likely going global, rampant corruption...there's no real representative gov't.

The truth has a way of coming out given time.