In Greece, the trial of former Finance Minister George Papakonstantinou, opened Wednesday before a special court of Athens. The man is accused of forging a list containing the names of more than 2,000 Greeks, suspected of tax evasion in Switzerland. Justice criticized in particular removing it, this document, the members of his family names.
George Papakonstantinou pleaded not guilty in court. The former Socialist minister Papandreou government has always believed to have served as a scapegoat. The case erupted in a financial crisis as the '' Lagarde list '. This is indeed the boss of the IMF, the then Minister of Finance, who transmitted the famous list in Athens.
This trial opens a new political and economic course began in Greece. The government of Alexis Tsipras made the fight against tax evasion one of its priorities.
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