Main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Stefanos Kasselakis on Wednesday met the President of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) Konstantinos Menoudakos and asked for a briefing regarding two cases, one relating to phone tapping using Predator surveillance software and a second concerning the leaking of the private e-mails of voters abroad.
"We asked to be briefed on two important issues: the first was the illegal malware, Predator, the 93 targets that he handed to the prosecutor's office and we are still waiting for an answer after many months on whether these coincide with the phone tapping by the intelligence service (EYP) and the Maximos Mansion," the main opposition leader said.
Regarding the second issue and the leaked data, Kasselakis stressed that he had asked for an expansion of the investigation to uncover possible additional leaks from the same sources in the interior ministry, saying it was important to know who had leaked the information and where else the data may have leaked to.
The main opposition leader also commented on a raid carried out by the police on the headquarters of the Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE), in a post on social media:
"The police are carrying out a raid on OSE and confiscating the hard drives with the original audio record of the exchanges at Tempi. Now! A year after the crime! In other words, have investigating authorities been doing their job for the past year based not on the original material but on the edited version?... all this is added to many crucial questions still unanswered by the government," Kasselakis said, concluding:
"The noose is tightening. No cover up can last forever".