Observations: What is the case for which the KKE requests to join the investigation committee

Of Panagiotis Stathis

A case of alleged surveillance of a political party that arrived shortly before filing (with a prosecutor’s order) but remains “active” at the Athens District Attorney’s Office 6 years later (!!!).

This is the outline related to the complaints of the Communist Party of Greece, for which it requests an extension of the investigation and it is not excluded that it will be the temporal “opening” backwards for its investigation by the Commission of Inquiry that will be established today.

The first complaint

The case began, as recently described by 902.gr, in November 2016 when “clashes of consensus” were observed, which on 31/11/2016, the KKE publicly denounced in a statement.

A preliminary examination was immediately started by the First Instance Prosecutor’s Office, while a few months later, on 5/4/2017, a new case of telephone interference at the KKE headquarters was reported by the KKE.

On November 6, 2017, by order of the first instance prosecutor Vaia Akrivou, according to information, she reached the conclusion to archive the file as no criminal acts are documented.

According to prosecutorial sources, described in the reports of the time, in order to reach this conclusion, the prosecutor referred to the Authority for Ensuring the Privacy of Communications (ADAE), which gave an opinion that there was no breach of privacy.

However, in the attempt to verify the users’ information through the removal of the privacy of telecommunications, it was found that the origin of phone calls was falsified, with the result that the identification of the callers is difficult to impossible.

The conclusion, evaluating all the evidence, concludes according to the same information, that it did not appear that the phone calls in question were threatening and thus according to the prosecutor the only offense that can be substantiated is that of defamation, which is however prosecuted following a lawsuit by the victim, which in this case has not been submitted

He disagreed

After the intense reactions of the KKE and its memorandum to the prosecutor’s office, the Appellate Prosecutor’s Office “returned” the case to the First Instance Prosecutor’s Office, for review and further investigation. In other words, he did not consent to the archiving. From there she appears to have been sent for a preliminary examination to GADA and then returned to a District Attorney, who continues to handle her. as prosecutorial sources say, the insubstantial conclusion of the investigation is largely due to the fact that assistance was requested from various foreign authorities and companies that have not responded.

-At the same time, however, on 18/1/2019, the KKE complains that a new case of “collusion” with third parties is appearing at the telephone center of the KKE Central Committee in Perissos, with a political party! For this particular complaint, the then Supreme Court prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou also ordered a judicial investigation. The KKE talks about a similar incident in 2020 as well as about the last case of “eavesdropping” – eavesdropping on 26/4/2022.

Complaints

The report describes the KKE as “heaps of very serious evidence about the “hearings” – wiretapping in the KKE were literally on the plate of the competent authorities and were known to the governments. And, of course, the statement of the SYRIZA MP G. Katrougalos last Wednesday, that “there was no hard evidence, that’s why there was no investigation”, is a blatant lie.

The actions taken from time to time by the competent authorities (police, prosecutors, etc.) were “for the eyes of the world” and after continuous interventions by the KKE, inside and outside the Parliament”.

Along with its recent announcement, the KKE is again asking for an investigation from 2016 since “as we emphasized from the first moment, the KKE agrees to the establishment of an inquiry committee to monitor Nikos Androulakis, at the same time highlighting the need for the relevant request, submitted by the PASOK, to clearly include both the case of the monitoring of journalists and the case of “meetings-interceptions” at the headquarters of the Central Committee of the KKE in Perissos, for which there have been complaints and concrete evidence since 2016.

Beyond that, the ND’s proposal for a ten-year extension of the inquiry committee’s investigation time, without references to specific incidents and without evidence, has the sole aim of “throwing the ball on the platform” to get the ND government out of the predicament of being accountable for all that has been revealed’.