File photo. The Director-General of the Greek National Intelligence Service (EYP) Panagiotis Kontoleon attends during a session in the greek parliament, in Athens, Greece, 29 July 2022. [EPA-EFE/ALEXANDER BELTES]
Greece’s former spy chief takes the fall for Greek government’s wiretapping crimes – Reports of ALL evidence being DESTROYED
Kontoleon: “I, alone, did the wiretapping” – “Mitsotakis knew nothing about it” – Plays the role of the “scape goat” by “confessing” to the wiretapping crimes in order to spare his political superiors
-by John Kountouris | 01 Sept. 2022 | 19:58| Athens, Greece | Find me on Social Media!: Facebook • Twitter • Instagram • LinkedIn • Youtube
According to Greek news site Pronews.gr…
Former head of the Greek National Intelligence Service (EYP), Panagiotis Kontoleon, “confesses” to the crimes of illegal wiretapping so that his political superiors could be spared….
The sacked EYP head Panagiotis Kontoleon “took all on himself on himself” in the criminal wiretapping scandal, in today’s hearing at the Institutions and Transparency Committee, after stating that Kyriakos Mitsotakis had no information about the wiretapping.
So Mr. Kontoleon, like a modern “Iphigenia” one could say, “sacrifices himself” in order to spare his political superiors, specifically Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his entourage.
According to sources, the former head of the Greek EYP, Panagiotis Kontoleon, is reported to have said that the prime minister or his office were never informed of decisions to declassify communications to then add that updates were made through official memos on the results of investigations, only if it was deemed necessary.
The same sources claim that he refused to refer to the Nikos Androulakis case even as to whether the specific file has been destroyed as claimed by publications citing the confidentiality clause. Many major publications in Greece have been reporting is recent days that the Greek government has given an order to the Greek Intelligence Services to…DESTROY any and all evidence linked to it criminal wiretapping.
New tensions in the Greek Intelligence Services have arose after the recent revelations of well-know Greek news site “Ef.Syn” concerning a secret Greek government operation to destroy information related to wiretapping and KETYAK. So far the Greek government has NOT denied any of it.
“Ef.Syn” writes on the 31st of August 2022:
Yesterday’s revealing publication of “Ef.Syn.” exploded like a bomb where, according to secure information from our newspaper, an operation has begun to expunge data at EYP which also concerns wire-tapping products, but mainly data related to the agreements and data managed by the Center for Technological Support, Development and Innovation (KETYAK), which was created one year after the elections in Greece, on July 9, 2020, with a nighttime amendment to an unrelated bill at the time and which was defined as an independent agency within the already independent EYP, reporting only to the commander of the agency, that is, in essence, the Greek prime minister himself.
See their publication on this:
According to sources, the secrecy clause that governs national security and EYP cases was also invoked by the former general secretary -and nephew- of the prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Grigoris Dimitriadis.
Under strict security measures, the meeting of the Institutions and Transparency Committee continues for the hearing of former and current administrators of EYP as well as persons allegedly connected to the wiretapping on the mobile phone of PASOK party leader, Mr. Nikos Androulakis.
The hearings of the former heads of EYP Theodoros Dravilas (2012-15), Ioannis Roubatis (2015-19) and Panagiotis Kondoleons (2019-22) as well as the former Chief-of-Staff of the Prime Minister, Grigoris Dimitriadis, ended shortly after 16:30.
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