Commentators believe that the discussion about the case has been incited for the sole purpose of rehabilitating the former Prime Minister in the public consciousness and that it is connected with his return to active politics.

It turns out that more than 107 of the offshore companies belong to Greeks and that their headquarters are on the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea.

Tension and a scandal marked the beginning of the session of the parliamentary commission to investigate the "Lagarde List" case, in which PASOK’s leader Evangelos Venizelos is testifying. He has been called as a witness in the investigation of the list of 2,063 Greek citizens who hold accounts of millions of euro in the Swiss branch of HSBC.

The situation with the merger of the National Bank of Greece (NGB) and Eurobank remains unclear. Financial analysts do not exclude that the crisis in Cyprus may have scared the Greek government and that it may have changed its position as regards the consolidation of the banking sector.