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Journalist Arrested In Greece For Publishing List of Possible Tax-Evaders

Posted by samzenpus on from the naughty-list dept.

kyriacos writes "The Greek government is charging journalist Kostas Vaxevanis with violation of the data privacy law for publishing a list of about 2,000 Greeks who hold accounts with the HSBC bank in Switzerland. While more and more austerity measures are being taken against the people of Greece, there is still no investigation of tax evasion for the people on this list by the government. The list has been in the possession of the Greek government since 2010."

6 of 344 comments (clear)

  1. He should be jailed by multiben · · Score: 5, Funny

    Evading tax is every Greeks' right and what has made Greece the economic powerhouse it is today.

    1. Re:He should be jailed by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 5, Funny

      My first thought was, "Who needs a list? Just pick up a copy of the Athens Telephone Book."

      --
      Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
    2. Re:He should be jailed by Sulphur · · Score: 5, Funny

      My first thought was, "Who needs a list? Just pick up a copy of the Athens Telephone Book."

      What an unorthodox use of mathematical symbols.

  2. Re:Tax records by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    They might, and I'm just suggesting this, actually like it in their brainwashed collectivist nightmare, because it might not be as nightmarish as you seem to think.

  3. Re:Get out of Greece now. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The ads are to hold the price up long enough for the early purchasers to convert to yuan.

    FTFY

  4. Re:Tax records by foofish · · Score: 3, Funny

    To me the very concept of collectivism is as repulsive as for example the idea of murdering 100,000,000 newborn by drowning them all in a tub filled with H2SO4. Do you know what I mean? And that is much fewer deaths and suffering than collectivism actually caused.

    It's like one of Ayn Rand's crazy fictional characters came to life!