A European Parliament committee has blamed Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for the surveillance scandal that rocked the nation final summer time.
The PEGA Committee, which is investigating the usage of spy ware in member nations, mentioned Tuesday that Prime Minister Mitsotakis was answerable for the scandal that noticed the usage of Predator spy ware for surveillance on the nation’s outstanding politicians, journalists and different public figures.
Sophie In’t Veldt, the committee’s rapporteur, mentioned: “What we know for sure is that as soon as his government took over, the law was changed and the EYP (Greece’s National Intelligence Service) came under the direct responsibility of the prime minister.”
“Either he knew, then we have a very serious problem, or he didn’t know when he should have known, which is also a serious problem,” she added.
Veldt mentioned some proof signifies that the Israeli-made Predator spy ware was exported from the Greek Cypriot administration to Sudan, the place two events are at conflict, by a license issued by Greece.
The European Commission has an obligation to research and to persist in acquiring all info, she added.
Surveillance scandal
On Aug. 8, 2022, Mitsotakis acknowledged that opposition politician Nikos Androulakis was wiretapped by Greece’s intelligence company however denied data of the operation.
The scandal first emerged on Aug. 4, when Panagiotis Kontoleon, then-head of the EYP, advised a parliamentary committee that the intelligence company had been spying on monetary journalist Thanasis Koukakis.
On Aug. 5, Kontoleon, together with the overall secretary of the prime minister’s workplace, Grigoris Dimitriadis, resigned.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
