{"id":2875,"date":"2025-01-29T15:15:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/pasok-condemns-prosecutors-dismissal-of-wiretapping-complaints-as-a-cover-up\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T15:15:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:15:43","slug":"pasok-condemns-prosecutors-dismissal-of-wiretapping-complaints-as-a-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/pasok-condemns-prosecutors-dismissal-of-wiretapping-complaints-as-a-cover-up\/","title":{"rendered":"PASOK condemns prosecutor\u2019s dismissal of wiretapping complaints as a cover-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>The main opposition PASOK party has strongly criticized Supreme Court deputy prosecutor Achilles Zisis\u2019 decision to dismiss the criminal complaints filed by its leader, Nikos Androulakis, and journalist Thanasis Koukakis, calling it \u201cone more link in the chain of cover-up\u201d of the wiretapping case. The legal action had been directed at the individual whose prepaid bank card was allegedly used to pay for SMS messages infected with the Predator spyware, which were sent to the complainants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZisis adopted the imaginative scenario that the card was activated by an \u2018unknown\u2019 individual without the PIN code and was used, without the owner\u2019s knowledge, to purchase messages infected with the Predator spyware, which were then sent to former prime minister Antonis Samaras, the PASOK leader, and government ministers. He accepted this claim without any technical or banking analysis,\u201d PASOK said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In the same statement, PASOK asserted that institutions and the rule of law were \u201ctarnished\u201d during the tenure of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The party urged him not to evade responsibility once again for the wiretapping scandal during his interview with Alpha TV on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>In a report made public earlier on Wednesday, Zisis said that the accused individual, Emilios Kosmidis, a supermarket employee, \u201chas no connection to the allegations, as a third party used the card, recharged it, and made the two transfers.\u201d He further clarified that no link was found between the accused and any individual from the National Intelligence Service (EYP).<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the charges of espionage and violation of the confidentiality of telephone communications at a felony level, as mentioned in the complaints by Androulakis and Koukakis, Zisis explained that these provisions of the criminal code do not apply, as they would require an actual threat to the free functioning of democracy or national security.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/politics\/1260057\/pasok-condemns-prosecutors-dismissal-of-wiretapping-complaints-as-a-cover-up\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main opposition PASOK party has strongly criticized Supreme Court deputy prosecutor Achilles Zisis\u2019 decision to dismiss the criminal complaints filed by its leader, Nikos Androulakis, and journalist Thanasis Koukakis, calling it \u201cone more link in the chain of cover-up\u201d of the wiretapping case. 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