ATHENS – The top of Greece’s intelligence service has stepped down, the prime minister’s workplace mentioned on Friday, following rising stress on the federal government to make clear using surveillance malware.
EYP chief Panagiotis Kontoleon had submitted his resignation “following mistaken actions discovered throughout lawful wiretapping procedures,” the prime minister’s workplace mentioned in a press release.
Kontoleon was not instantly reachable for remark.
Earlier this week, two lawmakers who spoke to Reuters on situation of anonymity mentioned that Kontoleon had admitted throughout a parliamentary committee on July 29 that his service had spied on Thanasis Koukakis, a monetary journalist who works for CNN Greece.
That closed-door listening to was referred to as after the chief of the socialist opposition PASOK occasion lodged a grievance with high courtroom prosecutors over an tried bugging of his cell phone with surveillance software program.
In a separate assertion on Friday, the prime minister’s workplace mentioned a high aide to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, his secretary-general Grigoris Dimitriadis, had additionally resigned, with out giving additional particulars. EYP stories to the prime minister’s workplace.
The federal government says Greek authorities don't use the adware allegedly deployed within the hacking of Koukakis and don't do enterprise with corporations promoting it.
In April, a Greek prosecutor started an investigation into an allegation by Koukakis that his smartphone had been contaminated by surveillance software program.
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