Request to cross-check lists of surveillance targets pending

A request by two prosecutors last year to check whether the 92 people targeted by illegal spyware Predator had also been surveilled by the country's intelligence service, EYP, remains pending four months after it was submitted to the independent authority responsible for privacy, ADAE.

Cross-checking the two lists would likely confirm or disprove the allegations of the existence of a "single center" that tracked people simultaneously through Predator and EYP, which is one of the questions lying at the center of Greece's wiretapping scandal.

Soon after prosecutors Angeliki Triantafillou and Konstantinos Spyropoulos submitted the request twice to ADAE in September and October 2023, Supreme Court Prosecutor Georgia Adeilini ordered them to hand over the case file to Deputy Prosecutor Achilleas Zisis, citing delays in the completion of the probe.

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