In a secret ballot late Monday, 220 deputies in the 300-seat Parliament voted in favor of the former minister being prosecuted for at least one charge, and 166 for all three. Seventeen deputies were absent.
The list of those with
accounts at a Geneva branch of HSBC is known as the "Lagarde list,"
because it was given by Christine Lagarde, then France's finance
minister, to her Greek counterpart in August 2010
However, its existence
was not revealed until September 2012. Information that the list had
been misplaced, copied and altered so as to exclude certain names then
started coming to light, causing a major uproar
The three charges against
Papaconstantinou are breach of trust, doctoring an official document
and dereliction of duty. If convicted, he faces a prison sentence
Papaconstantinou served
as finance minister from October 2009 to June 2011, and was finance
minister when Greece negotiated its first international bailout.
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