Arctic Splash parallel: Greek editor on trial for list of possible tax cheats.

[seand]

Mr Vaxevanis published the names of 2,000 Greeks who hold accounts with HSBC in Switzerland in the Saturday edition of his Hot Doc magazine.

Some of those named, said to include many prominent Greeks, are suspected of using the accounts for tax evasion.

Mr Vaxevanis says the list he published is the same one that was given by the then French finance minister Christine Lagarde to her Greek counterpart.
'Protect tax evaders'

The list was originally leaked by an HSBC employee and then handed over by Ms Lagarde to Greek authorities two years ago, according to news agency AFP.

Since then, successive Greek governments have been accused of trying to cover it up.

BBC News - Greece bank leak reporter Costas Vaxevanis sent to trial

[ArcticSplash]

Here we celebrate out tax cheats. The first tax cheat celeb of course was Willie Nelson.

[StrangeTanks]

I wish we had reporters with the same cajones.

As it is, um...4 or so years later...we're still trying to figure out what happened on wall street?

[lucidinnature]

Here we celebrate out tax cheats. The first tax cheat celeb of course was Willie Nelson.

huh?! Richard Pryor and Chuck Berry were in trouble long before Willy, and Willy wasn't a tax cheat... he got bad investment advice from some investment portfolio huckster, and ended up owing way more than he thought.

[StrangeTanks]

I think the only people that should ever be investigated for tax evasion are those people who make their money from wages.

People that make their money from investments are obviously job creators and shouldn't have to pay any taxes anyway.