Falciani: Sarkozy "Blackmailed" Papandreou To Accept The Troika Because His Mother's Name is on Lagarde List

In his upcoming book, Herve Falciani, a former bank analyst from HSBC, and whistleblower, who grabbed the world's attention by exposing the controversial "Lagarde List", claims that George Papandreou was forced to bring the troika to Greece, because his mother Margarita Papandreou allegedly has a secret HSBC account with more than 500 million euros.

It should be noted that the French-Italian former bank officer is currently wanted by Swiss authorities after he extracted a list of 106,000 of HSBC’s clients from 200 countries who held over 300,000 bank accounts. In December 2008 Falciani handed over these lists to the French authorities, who then passed on the relevant information to other governments, including Greece.

The revelations that Papandreou was forced by Sarkozy to accept the Troika came from none other than the Italian Corrierre della Sera newspaper. It apparently published some extracts from Falciani’s upcoming book, entitled La cassaforte degli evasore [“The safe of the tax evader”] and as such only confirmed what we here in Greece already suspected (since it was widely published on many news sites - including Hellasfrappe).

In the book, Falciani says that the list of golden depositors was used to enforce the austerity policies in Greece. According to the former bank executive, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was assigned to lead the negotiations with the troika for rescuing Greece. Sarkozy, adds Falciani, was aware of the list and as such was in the position to pressure the Greek Premier at the time.

As soon as Falciani's statements became known, George Papandreou's  Movement of Democrats Socialists issued a statement denouncing the former banker's allegations and argued that the investigation carried out by the Economic and Financial Crime Unit (SDOE) in Greece in Mrs. Papandreou’s finances proved her innocence.

Papandreou’s party warned that charges would be pressed.

To learn the background on this story, please read the following articles:

SPECIAL REPORT - MAJOR BOMB - Margarita Papandreou On Controversial "Lagarde List" With 550mln Account! (VIDEO)
http://hellasfrappe.blogspot.gr/2012/12/special-report-major-bomb-margarita.html

Margarita Papandreou Speaks Out About 550 Million Account In Switzerland
http://hellasfrappe.blogspot.gr/2013/03/margarita-papandreou-speaks-out-about.html

Margaret Papandreou Files Law Suits On Claims Of Being Linked To Lagarde list
http://hellasfrappe.blogspot.gr/2013/05/margaret-papandreou-files-law-suits-on.html

Papandreou Offended For Being Included In Lagarde Scandal Probe
http://hellasfrappe.blogspot.gr/2013/01/papandreou-offended-for-being-included.html

How Much Money Did Margret Get From Andreas Papandreou?
http://hellasfrappe.blogspot.gr/2013/11/how-much-money-did-margret-get-from.html

The Forbidden Nemesis - THIS IS A MUST READ
http://hellasfrappe.blogspot.gr/2013/01/the-forbidden-nemesis-this-is-must-read.html