Phone-tapping scandal lingers after court setback

Greece’s wiretapping scandal, which exposed amerciable surveillance of politicians, journalists and businesspeople utilizing Predator spyware successful 2020-2021, remains successful ineligible limbo aft Supreme Court Prosecutor Konstantinos Tzavellas declined to reopen an archived investigation.

The ruling, spanning 8,282 words, rejected a little Athens court’s petition to analyse charges including espionage and amerciable organisation of surveillance software.

The single-judge tribunal had earlier convicted 4 businessmen – Felix Bitzios, Sara Hamou, Tal Dilian and Yiannis Lavranos – sentencing them to a combined 126 years and 8 months. Investigations into alleged perjury proceed astatine the little authoritative level.

The lawsuit is acold from closed. Six individuals program to record caller complaints with caller evidence, while an appeals proceeding is scheduled for December 11, 2026.

Separately, PASOK person Nikos Androulakis is taking recourse to the European Court of Human Rights implicit Greece’s quality agency’s refusal to officially pass him astir his surveillance.