THE 80 BILLION THAT GREECE NEEDS ARE IN SWITZERLAND-AND ARE GREEK

Among the many knaveries the Troika and the European Council committed against Greece, perhaps the most cynical was to hide all the money that the Greeks need is now on tax havens and was the result of tax evasion by tycoons as supported by Merkel and Rajoy. Article Carlos Enrique Bayo, published in the Spanish public.

More to the point: the value that is hidden in Swiss bank accounts exceeds 80 billion - precisely the amount that is negotiating now for a third Greek bailout - according to experts consulted by Rundschau program (Panorama) of the Swiss broadcasting (SRF).

In other words, the Greeks funds hidden in Switzerland could even double or almost triple that amount, since the estimates quoted by the daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag, Zurich, on the amount of dirty money in Greece this tax haven between 2 and 200 billion EUROS! An astronomical value, which shows how the secrecy of the Swiss government was allowing the looting of public funds of Greece, which ruined the country (of course, its economic collapse was not caused by expenditure on pensions and early retirement, as we want to convince our rulers). While these fabulous fortunes do not pay a penny of taxes they should pay, the EU insists on demand increased economic punishment to the impoverished Greek population.

You can calculate how much money was subtracted from the Greek public funds in massive capital flight that has raged since 2010, when it became public that the conservative ruling party New Democracy was to hide its colossal public debt since 2001, with advice Goldman Sachs, in order to enter the Eurozone. This economic bleeding was produced in a patient already bled for tax fraud which seemed uncontrolled: in 2009, a report by Helvea Bank estimated that 99% of over 23 billion euros deposited by Greek millionaires in Swiss accounts were never declared to the tax authorities - and this only in bank deposits, not counting the other multiple forms of investment in Switzerland, such as stocks, real estate, foundations, trusts, funds ...

Not that the European authorities did not know the size of the diversion of wealth from Greece. Maybe it's the opposite: in 2010, Christine Lagarde (then Finance Minister of France and now director of the IMF) delivered to his colleague in the government of Athens, Giorgos Papaconstantinou, the 2,059 Greek names in the famous list Falciani (which was filtered by a IT employee of HSBC, with the identities of tens of thousands of European offenders with secret accounts in Zurich headquarters of the international bank). In Greek list includes a former culture minister, several senior positions in the Ministry of Finance and numerous leaders of the employers' association, among many other great entrepreneurs and prominent politicians.

But the Greek government not only hid this list and remained idly - although this show, for example, that a single family Papandreou, concealed this branch around 500 million € - as well as, years later, when the magazine Hot Doc published these names, the Greek prosecutor rushed to order the arrest of the director of publication, the journalist Kostas Vaxevanis investigation for violation of the privacy of offenders! More than that, last year, it was discovered that Papaconstantinou Minister had deleted the original list the names of her cousin Eleni, that of her husband and the husband of his sister, Marina, who had millions accounts in this branch of HSBC .

"The most interesting is why Greece, of all countries that received this list (the Falciani) was the only one who has not used" to recover the missing fortune, wrote political commentator Pavlos Tsimas in Sunday interview diary Greek Ta Nea. And this omission was not committed only by socialist Papaconstantinou (who negotiated the criticized first rescue of Greece, which submitted the country to a devastating austerity), but also for his successor at the head of the Finance folder, Evangelos Venizelos, who eventually became leader of PASOK (Socialist Movement Greek), and again the next conservative government of Antonis Samaras, great friend and ally of the Spanish President Mariano Rajoy.

But do not think that just means the Greek two-party (New Democracy and PASOK) sought to cover up the big offenders who ruin the public coffers. For example, the Labour government and British Conservatives also omitted the 7000 UK accounts in Falciani List: in eight years, only sued one of these 7,000 offenders !, the BBC, and allowed that during that time, these billionaires would lead to other tax havens around 100 billion euros, an immense fortune that evaded the British thanks to the inaction of governments Finance, at the same time, multiplying the tax burden on wage earners, which cut services and support with argument of the lack of public funds.

But Switzerland is just another one of the 74 tax havens in the world, where it is estimated (Wall Street estimates) that hide about 32 billion dollars (the sum of Spain's PIB's here until 2045), gigantic accumulation capital, in addition, increases in 1000 million dollars each year. It is this monetary tremendous stock diverted from public coffers, leaving "money market", with the states into debt, and then you need to return religiously, with the sacrifices and hardships of citizens, according to the quasi-religious doctrine the neoliberal austerity.

Does anyone still believe that public debt is legal, moral or legitimate?

Director of Public, was editor in chief of the international editorial in the paper edition of the journal. He worked as a correspondent in Moscow (1987-1992) and Washington (1992-1996), and also as principal of the international publishing in five different journals. It was also a special envoy in conflicts in Afghanistan, Cambodia, the Middle East and Armenia-Azerbaijan.

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