PASOK Demands Parliamentary Inquiry Into Wiretapping Scandal After Prosecutor Declines to Reopen Case

Opposition person Nikos Androulakis has announced that PASOK volition question a parliamentary investigative committee into Greece's wiretapping scandal, pursuing a Supreme Court prosecutor's determination not to reopen the lawsuit contempt a tribunal ruling calling for further enquiry into imaginable further offenses and suspects.

Speaking astatine an exigency property conference, Mr. Androulakis directed his sharpest disapproval astatine the Supreme Court's leadership, accusing it of undermining the credibility of the justness system.

"Today, the enactment of the Supreme Court insulted and undermined the prestige of justness itself," helium said, describing the prosecutor's refusal to enactment arsenic "another occurrence of the discrediting of the regularisation of instrumentality and the separation of powers."

Mr. Androulakis alleged that the determination was the merchandise of behind-the-scenes negotiations astatine the Maximos Mansion — the premier minister's authoritative residence — and accused Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of heading what helium called "a profoundly corrupt strategy of power."

He said Mr. Mitsotakis "is unsafe and indispensable permission truthful that the state tin breathe, truthful that ideology tin breathe."

The PASOK person besides criticized prosecutors for failing to summon Tal Dilian, laminitis of surveillance institution Intellexa, to supply grounds connected claims that Predator spyware had been sold exclusively to authorities agencies.

"They did not bash their minimum duty.

They refused to investigate," Mr. Androulakis said.

Mr. Dilian was convicted by an Athens tribunal successful February connected charges of breaching idiosyncratic information during the wiretapping ungraded that shook Greece successful 2022, erstwhile it emerged that the quality work had monitored politicians, journalists and businesspeople.

Mr. Androulakis said PASOK lawmakers volition formally taxable the committee petition wrong days and called connected different absorption parties to enactment the move.