The Mitsotakis government’s involvement in the wiretapping scandal is international, reports the SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance in a statement, commenting on the Predator Files, an international journalistic investigation involving 15 major international media outlets.

“The new evidence confirms that Megaro Maximos cooperated with international arms and security system dealers to set up Intellexa’s infrastructure in Greece,” the announcement states, among other things.

“SYRIZA-PS will not allow the responsibilities of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his entourage to be covered up,” says Koumoundourou.

The SYRIZA-PS announcement in detail

“The Predator Files, a journalistic investigation with the participation of 15 major international media outlets, comes to reveal, through the release of classified documents, that Greece in the last three years had become the center of training, production and export of the illegal Predator software and the world headquarters activity of Intellexa company.

The journalistic revelations cannot be disputed because a significant amount of documents come from the investigations of the French security authorities and the partners of Intellexa and Cytrox themselves.

The Mitsotakis government, which for a number of months maintained that the EYP had nothing to do with Predator and that the surveillance with the malicious software was carried out by “private individuals”, was subsequently forced by the revelations to change its line of communication and attribute the surveillance to “filth” networks’ within the secret services.

Now, Maximou and the government representative have nothing to answer the questions of the foreign media about the new revelations and with their attitude they are dragging the country further.

The new evidence confirms that Megaros Maximos worked with international arms and security system dealers to set up Intellexa’s infrastructure in Greece. The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, by granting export licenses to Intellexa and Krikel, facilitated the export of the Predator from our country and spread throughout the world, arming oppressive regimes and authoritarian governments. The European Commission has requested from February 14, 2023 detailed information from Greece on this matter, which the Maximos Palace and the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have not yet provided.

SYRIZA-PS has repeatedly asked the Minister of Justice, Yiannis Floridis, to assist by all means the investigation of the Prosecutors of First Instance who are investigating the case of illegal surveillance in the last months. However, no help has been provided till date.

SYRIZA-PS has requested that the list of 88 Predator targets identified by the Personal Data Protection Authority be submitted to the Parliament’s Institutions and Transparency Committee to find out how many ministers and government officials have received sms with the malware and they haven’t made it public yet.

SYRIZA-PS has requested that the same list of targets, which has been documented by the Personal Data Protection Authority, be checked by the Judiciary and the competent authorities, in order to cross-check how many of these 88 targets had been placed under surveillance by the EYP and signed by the prosecutor Vasiliki Vlachos.

SYRIZA-PS will not stop consistently calling for a lot of light to be shed on this case and for the culprits, politicians, businessmen and public officials, to be punished for the dozens of crimes that have been committed. This is the only way to get justice for the victims of wiretapping and to stop Greece being dragged along as the country that not only bred the Predator, but also tried to cover up the scandal.

SYRIZA-PS will not allow the responsibilities of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his entourage to be covered up.”