The Greek State has never procured illegal monitoring software and there is neither directly nor indirectly such a contract, the Minister of State Giorgos Gerapetritis reportedly clarified on behalf of the government to the Institutions and Transparency Committee of the Parliament where the complaint about an attempt to monitor the mobile phone of the President was discussed PASOK – KINAL of Nikos Androulakis.
At the Committee, for which Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis yesterday asked the Speaker of the Parliament Kostas Tassoulas to meet immediately to investigate the Androulakis complaint, Mr. Gerapetritis reportedly emphasized that Greece has one of the strictest frameworks for legal connections , while disclosure is not made in cases where there is a legal connection for reasons of national security, as is the case in all countries around the world and was mentioned in cases of hybrid warfare or in cases of espionage on behalf of the neighbor.
Answering a question from Haris Kastanidis from PASOK-KINAL about whether there is a contract of the EYP with a certain Krikel company, he mentioned that this particular company did not sign anything with the current government, but in 2018 during SYRIZA and with the signature of Mr. Toska.
The Minister of Digital Policy Kyriakos Pierrakakis also took the floor, who according to the same information presented a 2018 map of the presence of illegal software in the Facebook report, which lists seven illegal software, but also a European Parliament report that records attempts against five ministers and prime minister, attempt on European Council President Charles Michel and 300 Pegasus cases in Hungary.
Based on the same information, PASOK-KINAL rapporteur Haris Kastanidis and Giorgos Katrougalos from SYRIZA tried once again to link the attempted entrapment abroad that Mr. Androulakis denounced with the case of journalist Thanasis Koukakis, the complaints of the KKE since 2016 for surveillance in Perissos but also publications of the newspapers Dimokratia and EFSYN about hacking and alleged surveillance of 12-year-old refugee children and lawyers for immigrants
Ch. Kastanidis: Major issue of Democracy
According to other information, it was pointed out by Haris Kastanidis that the attempt to trap the mobile phone of Nikos Androulakis constitutes a major issue of Democracy and Transparency, as the leader of the third party and the PASOK-Movement for Change faction were targeted. The clarification of the case is not a personal issue, but concerns the need to safeguard democracy and institutions. It is no coincidence at this political juncture that only the President of PASOK-Movement for Change was identified as a possible victim of entrapment.
Mr. Kastanidis is said to have addressed the Commander of the EYP and asked if Mr. Kontoleon knew the Prime Minister before his appointment as the head of the EYP and if he had contacts with persons named in reports about spyware.
During the meeting, the dissension, which the government representative Yiannis Oikonomou had publicly raised in previous statements regarding the Koukakis case, was highlighted. He had talked then about private individuals who do surveillance.
The EYP must say who these individuals are. Were the individuals in question investigated? If not, they are dangerous, because how will civil life and citizens be protected? Why was the landscape left unregulated so that anyone could freely use such heavy tracking and trapping systems?
Source: Capital
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