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Police in Greece arrested a Greek journalist who published the names of 2,000 Greeks with deposits in Swiss bank accounts.

Kostas Vaxevanis, editor of the Greek magazine Hot Doc, was arrested in Athens today, according to a message posted on his Twitter account at 11 a.m. local time. An arrest warrant was issued yesterday after the magazine published what’s been dubbed the “Lagarde list,” an electronic file given to Greece in 2010 by then-French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde of about 2,000 Greeks with Swiss accounts.

Vaxevanis was arrested for publishing citizens’ private information, a breach of Greek privacy law, a police spokesman said by telephone today. Private television station Mega TV reported that he was released and will appear in court tomorrow.

In a video message posted on the news website Pandora’s Box today, Vaxevanis said he published the list because of government inaction in following up on the names of potential tax evaders even as it prepares new austerity measures.


Added: Oct-28-2012 Occurred On: Oct-28-2012
By: TheSanityInspector
In: Regional News, Citizen Journalism, Other
Tags: greece, austerity, debt, eurozone, swiss banks
Location: Athens, Attica, Greece (load item map)
Marked as: approved
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  • I read about this on BBC. I support this man and believe in what he does. He exposed the top asses of society who cheated the system and their own people. Not targeting Greeks because I'm Turk, God knows the world needs more of what this man did. He is a brave man, my respects go out to him.

    Posted Oct-28-2012 By 
    turkzil (123.88)  

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  • In Greece tax avoidance is almost seen as a duty.

    Posted Oct-28-2012 By 
    fr33thinker (901.10)

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  • Some people have too much money and hence too much power.

    Posted Oct-28-2012 By 
    paperboy (306.00)  

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  • Thats show that they arent worth out trust and surely not our money
    Just kick them out of EU

    Posted Oct-28-2012 By 
    Leon Degrelle (118.10)  
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  • there are no rich people in greece

    Posted Oct-28-2012 By 
    unxzero (150.30)  

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  • This shows the influence the elites have in western politics, it's just as bad in the US and the rest of Europe.
    Many governments let their rich pals get away with tax evasion while nailing the middle/working classes if they dare do the same.

    Posted Oct-28-2012 By 
    werdum12 (268.20)  

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  • It's not illegal to have a swiss bank account. It's a tax loophole that the government of greece hasnt closed yet. If anything the rich ones with these accounts are the clever ones. Perhaps if the poor were smart enough to send money to a swiss account they'd be rich too. There is a reason the world has these wealth classes though. It's called the difference between the intelligent rich and the retarded poor.

    Posted Oct-28-2012 By 
    psiewert (37.00)  

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  • yupp rich people in greece dont have to pay taxes. also our billions and billions of euro dont go to the people of greece.

    just an excuse to fill their pockets.

    fucking politicians, one day they will all pay with their blood.

    just wait till t he first germans know the felling of hunger again, at this point it will go very fast :)

    Posted Oct-29-2012 By 
    DU Hurensohn (12.70)  

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