A list of some 2,000 Greeks with large deposits in a Swiss bank was handed over to the government on Tuesday by Evangelos Venizelos, head of PASOK -- one of the three parties in the coalition government -- and former finance minister, who said that he had originally been given the list by the head of the Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE), Yiannis Diotis. The list is thought to have been first compiled by French authorities in 2010 and submitted to then-Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou by his French counterpart Christine Lagarde, current head of the International Monetary Fund. Papaconstantinou later claimed that ... (full story)