With reference to confidentiality, key persons in the case telephone monitoringwho were invited to a special meeting Parliamentary Institutions and Transparency Committee Yesterday they didn’t say anything specific about the reasons for connecting to the telephone of Mr. N. Androulakis, but not about whether the communications of other political figures are monitored. However, during the meeting, which turned out to be a marathon, the information they provide that in contentious cases at that time, or in all others over the past three years, it was reported that no advance information was available to the Prime Minister’s office, and subsequently in cases where no evidence was found.

As you know, the committee meeting was held on the basis of the Regulations and legal obligations, as it concerned issues National Intelligence Service, under strict protection and confidentiality measures regarding what will be said during it. However, the press services received information, some of which was contradictory, without the possibility of confirming them due to the aforementioned regulatory obligations.

Former EMP Commander Mr. Contoleon said the Prime Minister’s Office was only informed when it was deemed necessary based on monitoring results, and not before communications were established.

In fact, and according to converging information, citing confidentiality, they refused to answer, either positively or negatively, questions about whether politicians are under the supervision of the EMP, in principle as a former commander of the EMP P. contoleon as well as former gc prime minister Gr. Dimitriadis. With the same argument, Mr. Contoleon also declined to say whether there was a case concerning Mr. N. Androulakis, while he reportedly added that the Prime Minister’s office was only informed by official memorandums when this was deemed necessary results in monitoring cases, not prior to establishing connections. It is worth noting that the issue of informing the Prime Minister’s office was also raised by the current commander of the EMP, T. Demiris, who is credited with the remark that he will inform Maximos about investments. Official sources in the opposition took the remark differently, arguing that Mr. Mr. Demiris claimed to have retroactively informed the Prime Minister of all cases. Later, the prosecutor’s office is also notified about this. Vas.Vlakhov as well as K. Tzavela invoke the element of confidentiality, the former, among other things, for this reason not referring to the reasons that led to the connection of Mr. Androulakis. The same information leads her only to the fact that the request for this connection brought, as expected, the necessary signatures of EYP executives and was accompanied by all the elements that make the connection necessary.

The former commander of the agency (during the reign of SYRIZA-ANEL) G. Rubatis also mentioned the problem of monitoring by the EMP in general, noting, according to some reports, that the connection, when it is carried out by the EMP, cannot be illegal. . However, unlike previous ones, he did not refer to secrecy and said that in his day, politicians were not under surveillance. Called, however, to comment on what has recently become known about the surveillance of the phones of the former head of TAIPED St. Picciorla and former government gg SYRIZA-ANEL Sp.Saya, o Mr Rubatis they reportedly eavesdropped on the two politicians because they were talking to people whose phones were tapped, not because the politicians’ phones were connected. In this regard, there is conflicting information – in combination with what was also attributed to Samaras-Venizelos, commander of the EMP under the government T. Dravila both about whether there was a connection between the phones of the two politicians, and about when it began.

Head of the Communications Privacy Office Chr. Rammo it is assessed that a privacy statement cannot be presented to the Committee on Institutions and Transparency, which was also attributed to the “blue” MP ​​K. Tsavara.