Athens on the 9th of August : Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has denied being involved in an investigation involving the tapping of an opposition leader’s mobile by the Greek National Intelligence Service (EYP) over a period of several months. “What was done might have been legal however, it was not legal.
I was unaware of it, and clearly I would never have endorsed something like this,” he said in an interview on Monday.
Mitsotakis said that Mitsotakis said that if he was aware of these crimes, he would not have allowed these activities to take place.
Nikos Androulakis, head of the social-democratic opposition PASOK party and a member of the European Parliament, has laid charges against unidentified persons in connection with the tap on the phone.
The investigation has revealed that his mobile was being monitored for months by the EYP.
The revelations caused the resignation on the 5th of August of EYP Commander Panagiotis Kontoleon, and Grigoris Dimitriadis who was the head of Mitsotakis’s Secretariat.
The Minister for Rime has announced a reform of the EYP in order to improve its accountability and enhance the oversight of Parliament through the Institutions and Transparency Committee.
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