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Ex-finance minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou is to face a parliamentary investigation on tax evasion. (Photo: International Monetary Fund)

Greek parliament votes to probe ex-minister

Deputies in the Greek parliament early Friday (18 January) voted to launch a parliamentary investigation into Greece’s former minister of finance Giorgos Papaconstantinou.

Papaconstantinou is one of several names to have emerged in the mishandling of a list that discloses the identities of some 2,000 powerful tax-evading Greeks who hid away €2 billion in Swiss bank accounts.

Others, like ex-prime ministers George Papandreou and Lucas Papademos and Papaconstantinou’s successor and ...

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

Ex-finance minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou is to face a parliamentary investigation on tax evasion. (Photo: International Monetary Fund)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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