Mysteries of a scandal

What the Interior Ministry said in its announcement regarding the independent investigation into the leak of the emails of dozens of overseas Greeks was true. The Data Protection Authority did indeed determine that the leak was not connected to the postal vote for the upcoming European Parliament elections, as the list of recipients was drawn up on June 8, 2023, and sent to governing New Democracy's secretary for diaspora affairs a couple of weeks later, on June 23.

However, the watchdog's 68-page report also included some other interesting findings. One of them concerns the unofficial probe conducted by the government into the affair, which led to the ouster of the Interior Ministry general secretary, Michalis Stavrianoudakis, and ND's secretary for diaspora affairs, Nick Theodoropoulos. The DPA said that it had sent a letter to the prime minister's general secretariat...