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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.<\/p>\n
Androulakis\u2019 latest attempt to get to the bottom of the phone-tapping scandal, which also affected other politicians, as well as journalists and business people, was reported by Ta Nea newspaper on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
According to Ta Nea, Androulakis\u2019 lawsuit comes in the wake of a report by the investigative news site Inside Story, which found that a key figure in the phone-tapping attempts \u2013 the person who appears to have paid for the spyware, in fact \u2013 has not been summoned for questioning by the judicial authorities investigating the case even though his name emerged 12 months ago.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, journalist Thanasis Koukakis, who was also targeted in the same way at roughly the same time, has also filed a similar lawsuit based on Inside Story\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n
The lawsuits are aimed at this particular individual, but also at \u201call responsible parties,\u201d and demand a thorough investigation into specific serious offenses, including treason, breach of telephone communications privacy and violations of personal data.<\/p>\n
The news of Androulakis\u2019 new lawsuit came just as a meeting was announced for December 4 between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the PASOK leader, who has been buoyed by his recent re-election and his party\u2019s rise to the role of main opposition after the near-collapse of SYRIZA.<\/p>\n
The wiretapping scandal has seriously strained relations between the two after Mitsotakis admitted that the National Intelligence Service (EYP), which is under his purview, had surveillance over dozens of public figures in Greece, but denied that the government has ever used the illegal software that was found on Androulakis\u2019 telephone.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n