Greek surveillance scandal

PASOK chief Nikos Androulakis has filed a new lawsuit in connection with attempts to illegally tap his phone with Predator spyware in 2021, when he was serving in the European Parliament and running for the leadership of the center-left party.

A lawsuit taken by Grigoris Dimitriadis, the former head of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' secretariat, against a number of media outlets regarding their reporting on the country's wiretapping scandal has been thrown out of court.

The 300-page report by the deputy prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Achilles Zisis, has only assigned criminal responsibility for the extensive wiretapping of phone conversations of various people including politicians and journalists to the companies that had the illegal Predator software, and not the National Security Service (EYP) or any other government agency (the Hellenic Police [ELAS] or

The Committee on Institutions and Transparency will meet Friday morning in Parliament to address concerns from opposition parties stemming from a recent Supreme Court ruling on the wiretapping case involving illegal spyware.

The decision on Tuesday by the Prosecutor's Office of the Supreme Court to shelve the complaints about the wiretapping case related to the National Intelligence Service (EYP), or any other state agency for that matter, caused a storm of reactions and acrimony between the government and opposition parties, who denounced it as a cover-up.

Greek Supreme Court Prosecutor Georgia Adeilini announced on Tuesday the results of the investigation into the phone-tapping case. The investigation found no involvement of any state service in the use or purchase of the illegal Predator spyware, which was discovered on the phones of numerous prominent Greek politicians, journalists, and businesspeople.

Supreme Court Report on Wiretapping: Three Main Findings

The investigation by the Supreme Court into the wiretapping case has led to three main conclusions. After a thorough investigation lasting almost two years, the Supreme Court Prosecutor Georgia Adeilini announced the findings today. According to the report, the key points of the investigation are:

The former head of Greece's EYP intelligence service has denied allegations that the state agency used illegal phone malware in 2019-2022 to spy on targets, court documents show.

Greece became mired in scandal in 2022 following allegations by an opposition party leader and a journalist that they had been under state surveillance via phone malware.

Four individuals have reportedly been summoned by the Supreme Court deputy prosecutor to testify as suspects in the wiretapping case that shocked the nation in 2022.

Four business people testified Wednesday before a Supreme Court prosecutor as suspects in the wiretapping scandal that targeted politicians, businessmen and media figures.

The 2021 espionage scandal-dubbed "Predatorgate"- involves wiretaps that targeted the electronic devices of politicians, businessmen and media figures.