Greek MPS have voted to launch a criminal investigation into ex-Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou.
Greece's coalition government has backed the investigation and potential trial of former Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou.
BBC: Greek ex-minister Papaconstantinou faces nepotism probe
It has since re-emerged, but the later version did not include Mr Papaconstantinou's relatives, reports say.
BBC: Greek ex-minister Papaconstantinou faces nepotism probe
In the short term it is likely to shrink, Mr Papaconstantinou accepts, this year and possibly next.
Mr Papaconstantinou, a British-trained economist, has a grip of the numbers and knows what has to be done.
It calls for Mr Papaconstantinou to be investigated for tampering with a public document and breach of duty.
BBC: Greek ex-minister Papaconstantinou faces nepotism probe
The list was passed to the Greek finance ministry by Ms Lagarde in 2010, when Mr Papaconstantinou was minister.
BBC: Greek ex-minister Papaconstantinou faces nepotism probe
It later re-emerged, after a journalist published it, but the later version did not include Mr Papaconstantinou's relatives, reports say.
If Greece is to stay on course, Mr Papaconstantinou and his team will have to keep putting in long hours.
Mr Papandreou and his finance minister, George Papaconstantinou, talk up the need to balance fairness and social peace with fiscal austerity.
Mr Papaconstantinou has promised to make the state's statistics service independent by next year, with the help of the central bank.
Mr Papaconstantinou, who introduced Greece's first austerity programme as the country tried to rein back its escalating debt, denies any wrongdoing.
BBC: Greek ex-minister Papaconstantinou faces nepotism probe
Pasok said Mr Papaconstantinou "handled the list in the worst possible way".
The names of two of Mr Papaconstantinou's cousins and their husbands were reportedly on the original list, of Greeks who held Swiss bank accounts.
BBC: Greek ex-minister Papaconstantinou faces nepotism probe
MPs from all three coalition parties - including Mr Papaconstantinou's Pasok - signed a proposal calling for his investigation for allegedly tampering with a public document.
BBC: Greek ex-minister Papaconstantinou faces nepotism probe
An independent statistics agency set up by Mr Papaconstantinou will help, but it will take years before the markets and Greece's European Union partners trust its figures.
The opposition leftist Syriza party had also wanted Pasok leader Mr Venizelos, who succeeded Mr Papaconstantinou as finance minister, to be investigated for failing to pursue the case.
The names of two of Mr Papaconstantinou's cousins and their husbands were on the original list, linked to two accounts in a Swiss HSBC branch, court officials say.
Three of Mr Papaconstantinou's relatives were removed from the list.
Under pressure from the European Commission, which frowns upon one-off measures, Mr Papaconstantinou says he will immediately tackle the structural reforms that his ineffectual predecessor, Yiannis Papathanassiou, had postponed.
Papandreou picked outgoing Defense Minister Evangelos Venizelos as new finance minister, jettisoning George Papaconstantinou, architect of a belt-tightening program that has stoked violent unrest and a revolt in his Socialist Party.
The Greek socialist party, Pasok, has expelled the former Finance Minister, George Papaconstantinou, over allegations he deleted the names of relatives from a list of Greeks who held Swiss bank accounts.
The Greek socialist party, Pasok, expelled Mr Papaconstantinou last week, saying he had "handled the list in the worst possible way", and there were "clear indications that the list was tampered with".
BBC: Greek ex-minister Papaconstantinou faces nepotism probe
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