Greece to probe former finance minister over Swiss bank account list
Mr Papaconstantinou, who received the list from French authorities in 2010 but later claimed he had lost the computer disk, has denied any wrongdoing, hinting that his political foes were trying to incriminate him. The allegations, concluded last week after a lengthy probe by a rash of Supreme Court prosecutors, centred on a number of HSBC accounts that two of Mr Papaconstantinou’s cousins and their spouses held in a Geneva branch. While one account appeared to be dormant, officials said, the second showed deposits in excess of $1.2m (£740,000). Under the government's unanimous decision on Monday, ... (Read the full story)