List of Swiss Accounts Turns Up the Heat in Greece ATHENS - The speaker of the Greek Parliament, several employees of the finance ministry and a number of business leaders are on a list of more than 2,000 Greeks said to have accounts in a Swiss bank, according to a respected investigative magazine. The Greek magazine, Hot Doc, published the list on Saturday, raising the stakes in a heated battle over which current and former Greek government officials had seen the original list passed on by France two years ago - and whether they had used it to check for possible tax evasion. Hot Doc said its version of the list matches the one that Christine Lagarde, then the French finance minister and now the head of the International Monetary Fund, had given her Greek counterpart in 2010 to help Greece crack down on rampant tax evasion as it was trying to steady its economy. The 2,059 people on the list are said to have had accounts in a Geneva branch of HSBC. Questions about the handling of the original list reached a near frenzy in Athens last week as two former finance ministers were pressed to explain why the government appeared to have taken no action on the list. The subject has touched a nerve among average Greeks at a time when the Parliament is expected to vote on a new 13.5 billion euro austerity package that could further reduce their standards of living. The publication of the list is likely to exacerbate Greeks" anger that their political leaders might have been reluctant to investigate the business elite, with whom they often have close ties. The magazine was careful to note that having an account at HSBC was not illegal or proof of evading Greek taxes, a point underscored by a spokesman for the Greek Finance Ministry. But the magazine suggested that Greek officials should check whether those on it had moved money into the accounts to escape paying taxes. Hours after the magazine hit newsstands, Athens prosecutors issued a warrant for the arrest of Kostas Vaxevanis, the owner and editor of Hot Doc, "where names from the Lagarde list have been published," Athens police said in a statement on their Web site. They said he was sought on misdemeanor charges; the Greek media reported that the charges were related to violating the privacy of those on the list. Mr. Vaxevanis said he was being wrongly targeted. "Instead of arresting the tax evaders and the ministers who had the list in their hands, they are trying to arrest the truth and free journalism," he said in a telephone interview that was uploaded on the Internet and widely circulated. The issue of the list has been roiling the country for weeks, posing new challenges to the fragile three-way coalition government of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. Above all, it put intense pressure on the Socialist party, a key member of the coalition, whose leader, Evangelos Venizelos, is one of two Socialist former finance ministers accused of not having acted on the information. The finger pointing, likely to intensify with the list's publication, is certain to distract Greek politicians during a week when European finance ministers are scheduled to discuss whether to release billions of euros in fresh financial aid. Greece's lenders have long said that the country must crack down on tax evasion and corruption to restore its credibility and be eligible for further infusions of cash. According to Hot Doc, the list includes not only some in the government and businesspeople, but also actors, doctors, lawyers and architects. It also includes several women identified as housewives who the magazine said had moved large amounts of money to the HSBC accounts. Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras was already scheduled to testify in detail on the history of Ms. Lagarde's list before Parliament this week, according to the ministry spokesman, who declined further comment. There was no immediate comment from Mr. Samaras, who was meeting with aides throughout the afternoon to discuss the new austerity measures being demanded by Greece's lenders. Giorgos Voulgarakis, the speaker of the Parliament from Mr. Samaras's center-right New Democracy party, denied having any overseas bank accounts and accused the magazine of mudslinging.