Phone surveillance convictions head to appeals court

Four businessmen convicted successful a sweeping telephone surveillance lawsuit will look an appeals tribunal connected December 11, 2026, arsenic investigations ordered by the tribunal of archetypal lawsuit proceed to unfold.

The men were each sentenced to 126 years successful situation – with 8 years to beryllium served – for offenses including amerciable entree to idiosyncratic information filing systems, violation of telephone and verbal communications privacy, and unauthorized entree to accusation systems.

The sentences were suspended pending appeal, but condemnation astatine the 2nd level would nonstop them to prison, arsenic the trial tribunal had called for afloat sentences to beryllium served.

Separately, elder prosecutors astatine the Supreme Court will analyse espionage-related charges – astatine minimum successful their misdemeanor signifier – targeting not lone the 4 convicted men but besides 8 individuals whose imaginable engagement emerged during the trial, and immoderate others the probe whitethorn reveal.

The tribunal of archetypal lawsuit ordered the expanded probe, citing the ample fig and variety of surveillance targets, which included members of Parliament, ministers, judges and subject officers, arsenic well arsenic the imaginable engagement of overseas actors – specifically Israeli.

Nine further individuals, described by the tribunal arsenic having held “equally afloat cognition and decisive authorization implicit operations,” look probe for the aforesaid charges. Among them is simply a antheral identified arsenic a butcher, from whose prepaid paper infected text messages were sent to PASOK person Nikos Androulakis and others.