Greek journo in court over leaked Swiss bank data
31 Oct 2012 5:11 AM IST
A Greek investigative journalist appeared in court on Monday after publishing names from an alleged list of Swiss bank accounts that the Athens government has been accused of trying to cover up.
Costas Vaxevanis, the editor of the Hot Doc magazine, published the the list in its inaugural issue on Saturday.
It included more than 2,000 names, allegedly from a controversial list of HSBC account holders that was originally leaked by a bank employee and passed to Greece in 2010 by France’s then finance minister Christine Lagarde.
Vaxevanis says he received the information in an anonymous letter whose sender claimed to have received it from a politician.
He has been charged with breach of privacy and faces a maximum three-year jail sentence if convicted. ‘Instead of arresting thieves and ministers breaking the law they want to arrest the truth,’ Vaxevanis commented on his Twitter account Saturday.
Costas Vaxevanis, the editor of the Hot Doc magazine, published the the list in its inaugural issue on Saturday.
It included more than 2,000 names, allegedly from a controversial list of HSBC account holders that was originally leaked by a bank employee and passed to Greece in 2010 by France’s then finance minister Christine Lagarde.
Vaxevanis says he received the information in an anonymous letter whose sender claimed to have received it from a politician.
He has been charged with breach of privacy and faces a maximum three-year jail sentence if convicted. ‘Instead of arresting thieves and ministers breaking the law they want to arrest the truth,’ Vaxevanis commented on his Twitter account Saturday.
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