Greece has
scored its first big victory against a high-profile tax dodger. One of the
country's most prominent businessmen, Leonidas Bobolas, was arrested Wednesday
on charges of tax evasion, Greek TV reported.
Greek media
said members of the Bobolas family were among those named in a list of the
country's political and business elite with secret bank accounts in
Switzerland.
The names
were known as the "Lagarde list" because they were given to Greece by
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde in 2010, when she was
French finance minister.
The French
government obtained the list from a former HSBC (HSEA) employee who leaked the
details of 20,000 of the bank's account holders. Bobolas is the chief executive
of Ellaktor SA, Greece's biggest construction group.
His family
also controls a number of media companies in Greece, including daily newspaper
Ethnos and popular TV station Mega. Tackling tax evasion is one of the
priorities of the Greek government.
Its data
suggest tax arrears were running at more than 70 billion euros at the end of
2014 -- money Greece desperately needs to avoid default.
(Πηγή:
money.cnn.com)
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