Athens ( CNN ) -- Greece 's Parliament has voted that former Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou should face criminal prosecution for allegedly wiping the names of at least three relatives from a list of more than 2,000 Greeks with Swiss bank accounts . The list of those with accounts at a Geneva branch of HSBC is known as the `` Lagarde list , '' because it was given by Christine Lagarde , then France 's finance minister , to her Greek counterpart in August 2010 . However , its existence was not revealed until September 2012 . Information that the list had been misplaced , copied and altered so as to exclude certain names then started coming to light , causing a major uproar . The three charges against Papaconstantinou are breach of trust , doctoring an official document and dereliction of duty . If convicted , he faces a prison sentence . Papaconstantinou served as finance minister from October 2009 to June 2011 , and was finance minister when Greece negotiated its first international bailout . Because he is a lawmaker , Parliament has to approve the lifting of immunity before any prosecution can proceed . In a secret ballot late Monday , 220 deputies in the 300-seat Parliament voted in favor of the former minister being prosecuted for at least one charge , and 166 for all three . Seventeen deputies were absent . Addressing lawmakers before the vote , Papaconstantinou denied wrongdoing and said he was being targeted `` for one simple reason , being the finance minister who put the country in the bailout process . '' A council of judges will convene , probably later this week , to decide whether Papaconstantinou should face the criminal charges outlined in Parliament . While it is not illegal to hold a Swiss bank account , and there is no evidence that anyone broke the law , suspicions are high in Greece that some of those named in the list may have opened the accounts to avoid paying taxes to the Greek state . A parliamentary committee was set up last year to look into why no investigation was carried out under either Papaconstantinou or his successor as finance minister , Evangelos Venizelos . Greek media questioned whether the failure to investigate those named for possible tax evasion might have been the result of an attempt by politicians to protect a wealthy elite . Lagarde is now the International Monetary Fund chief . Journalist Elinda Labropoulou reported in Athens and CNN 's Laura Smith-Spark wrote in London .
Greek Parliament votes for ex-minister to face charges over alleged tampering . The lawmakers ' vote lifts immunity from prosecution for George Papaconstantinou . Score: 6 Questions have been raised about how the list was handled after its existence was revealed .