Lagarde list

The Lagarde List is a spreadsheet containing roughly 2,000 potential tax evaders with undeclared accounts at Swiss HSBC bank's Geneva branch. It is named after former French finance minister Christine Lagarde, who in October 2010 passed it on to Greek officials to help them crack down on tax evasion. However, it was only two years later the list became known to a wider public, when Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis published it in his magazine Hot Doc,[1] protesting against the Greek government's failure to launch an investigation.

The Lagarde list is only a subset of a much larger data set, known as the Falciani list, with around 130,000 names of HSBC customers captured by the French police.[2] It is not to be confused with another list from the Bank of Greece of 54,000 people who took €22 billion out of the country, and which has yet to be investigated.[3]

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  2. ^ "Lagarde list: 24,000 Eurowide names held by UK Govt; 130,000 names held by French Intelligence". Darker Net. 31 October 2012. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
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