
The wiretapping scandal in Greece has escalated, after it was published that 33 people, officials, politicians, journalists and businessmen are targeted for wiretapping.
According to the opposition newspaper Documento , it is about a list of influential members of the conservative New Democracy party and potential rivals. Among them are government ministers, such as Foreign Minister Nikos Dhendias, former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, members of governors' families, politicians from the opposition Syriza party.
Also included are three newspaper directors, one of whom is from the conservative daily Kathimerini, journalists as well as two businessmen, where the name of the shipping tycoon Vangelis Marinakis, owner of the football clubs Olympiakos and Nottingham Forest, also the owner of one of the groups stands out. largest media outlets in Greece.
The main article of the newspaper "Documento", claims that all of them were intercepted by means of Predator software, which the Greek government claims that it has never used in its Intelligence Service. The government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou states in a press statement that "What is reported in the newspaper in question must be thoroughly investigated by the competent bodies and especially by the Greek judiciary, as there is no evidence and the facts are missing."
"These are critical hours for democracy and justice, for which it is important that it will stay at the right height", the statement of the opposition party Syriza reads. Diplomatic circles of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also point out that "it is unimaginable and dangerous to imply that the prime minister is eavesdropping on the foreign minister".
For his part, the publisher of the "Documento" newspaper, Kostas Vaxevanis, requested a meeting with the Supreme Court Prosecutor Isidhoros Ntojakos on Monday, to present all the facts of his investigation.