According to various reports, Bikas, who has been accused of informing former Prime Minister George Papandreou about the case, explained that he did not inform him about the "contents of the Lagarde list, but about the handing of the case."
But not many are convinced, and the reason for this is because Bikas has apparently displayed complete ignorance over the whole issue altogether.
It should be reminded that the controversial list contains the names of some 2,000 domestic depositors to the Geneva branch of HSBC.
Bikas' statements come after the testimony by former chief of the Economic Crime Squad (SDOE) Ioannis Diotis who last week submitted copies of an e-mail exchange he had about the list with Papakonstantinou in July 2011, when both were still in office. According to Athens reports, he suggested in one of those messages, that Bikas had briefed Papandreou about the list and left it to be understood that the former PM was fully aware of what was going on.
This is probably why the President of the Preliminary process, Christos Markogiannakis, said that the committee could summon Papandreou to testify. The former premier, who is still a Member of Parliament, is hardly in Greece because he spends most of his time (pretending to be a lecturer) in the United States.