NewsEuropeThe Greek Prime Minister denies that the Government is involved in an espionage case against an opposition leader

The Greek Prime Minister denies that the Government is involved in an espionage case against an opposition leader

File – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. – Fred Marvaux/EU Parliament/dpa – File

The Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has rejected this Monday that the Government is involved in an alleged espionage case against the opposition leader Nikos Androulakis, who heads the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) party, who detected an attempt to install the ‘ software’ Predator on your mobile phone.

“What has been done could have been legal, but it was wrong. I don’t know anything about it and obviously I would never approve of it,” he said during a speech televised by the ERT network. Thus, he has explained that said intervention would have had the approval of the Prosecutor’s Office, lasted three months and was automatically suspended, as required by law.

In this sense, he pointed out that “although everything was carried out legally, the National Intelligence Service underestimated the political dimension of these actions.” “Formally it was appropriate, but politically it is unacceptable. It should never have happened, it has been to the detriment of the Security Services, which have lost the confidence of the population,” he asserted.

“The prime minister’s office assumes political responsibility, although the management of the matter has been incomplete,” he said before insisting that “what has been done is wrong.” “I was not aware of any of this, obviously, I would never have allowed it,” she has pointed out.

However, the case has revealed the lack of additional “filters” when carrying out operations by the Intelligence Services. “The monitoring of a person in the political sphere presupposes guarantees beyond a trial carried out by competent persons,” she has maintained.

The case, which came to light a few weeks ago, has led to the resignation of the main head of Greek intelligence and one of the main advisers to the Greek prime minister.

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