A confidential document from the National Intelligence Service of Wind, the telecommunications provider of Nikos Androulakis, is the only one allegedly kept from an official file to monitor the PASOK president. And a specific document, the existence of which is disclosed by “K”, sheds light on a completely muddy case of surveillance of the leader of the country’s third parliamentary party.

At the same time, the official opposition is asking the Communications Privacy Authority (ADAE) to check whether a total of six phones have been declassified, at least five of which belong to SYRIZA employees. Among them is the head of the Civil Protection, Christos Spirtzis, whose phone, as it became known on Friday, was infected in November 2021 with the illegal Predator surveillance program.

In the Androulakis case, the declassification began with a call to national security on September 12, 2021, by order of the EPM, signed by prosecutor Vassiliki Vlachos. As required by procedure, the relevant provision was brought to the attention of the wind company through which the decision was enforced and the Communications Privacy Authority (ADAE).

According to a well-informed source “K”, a day later, the EMP sent a new, additional document, this time only to the telecom operator. At the same time, he asked the company’s managers to check and confirm, in order to avoid errors, that the telephone connection indicated in the declassification order really belonged to the President of PASOK.

The said document allegedly had the signatures of the outgoing EMP commander Panagiotis Kontoleontos, prosecutor Vasiliki Vlahos, and a police officer who served as seconded to the National Intelligence Service. The latter, as K wrote, in the midst of the revelations of Mr. Androulakis’ telephone tapping, was transferred back to the Attica Security Directorate of the Hellenic Police for health reasons. Prior to that, she served as Second Deputy Director at the Internal Security Administration (DEA-B), which is responsible for counter-terrorism, organized crime and counterintelligence outside of Turkey.

However, there is no certainty that the document in question bears the signature of a competent prosecutor.

This is the only element of the “Androulakis file” that has been retained as an emergency audit conducted Tuesday and Wednesday by ADAE at EYP found that there is no digital or even paper file associated with the surveillance of the PASOK president. and journalist Thanasis Koukakis (Ta Nea, September 8). In response to questions from the independent body’s auditors, EYP officials are said to have said that on the day Mr. Androulakis applied to have his phone verified, the agency activated a new “legitimate consent” system, causing all previous records to be lost, although there is an obligation to keep records for two years. It is noted that a year earlier, the information indicated that the new system of legal meetings was fully operational already at the beginning of 2022.

SYRIZA asks to inform ADAE if there was contact with the phones of five of its other leaders, except for Chr. Spircis.

Meanwhile, according to the fully confirmed information of “K”, Michalis Kalogiru, director of the office of the President of SYRIZA Alexis Tsipras, filed a request last Monday with ADAE to check whether he moved at the request of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) through the process of declassifying telecommunications providers for reasons national security to the phones of the following leaders of SYRIZA: him, Professor Nikos Faraduris, who works on energy issues and is going to be a candidate for parliament from SYRIZA, a close associate of Alexis Tsipras Nikos Andriopoulos, and Vangelis Kalpadakis, a diplomatic adviser to the former prime minister.

Some sources of information also report that, in addition to the above telephone connections, Mr. Kalogiru requested verification of a sixth “secret” connection, about which no further information was known.

According to the official version, for other telephone connections, except for Mr. Spirtzis’s, there is currently no evidence to conclude that their owners were monitored either using the illegal Predator software or using the legal EYP connection system. . “A selective selection has been made,” sources in the main opposition party said on Friday. However, other sources of information described that after the publication of the Andrulaki case, many SYRIZA officials sent their phones to specialized laboratories for testing, some to the Citizen Lab of the University of Toronto, which first indicated the use of the Predator in Greece. In the coming period, party officials will continue to receive notifications of the results of checks on their telephones.

According to the official version, Christos Spirtzis was informed that his mobile phone was infected with the illegal Predator program on Tuesday, 24 hours after Mr. Kalogiru filed a request with ADAE. Two controversial messages through which the installation of illegal software occurred were allegedly identified by him by searching the history of his telephone set. The first of them was sent from an unknown number on November 15, 2021 and contained a fake link to the “Editor’s Journal”. The second was sent on November 19 and, like the case of journalist Thanasis Koukakis and PASOK president Nikos Androulakis, contained a fake link from the edolio5.blogspot.com block.

According to SYRIZA, the connection of the two messages to illegal spyware was only confirmed on Tuesday by a laboratory in Athens, which is collaborating with foreign colleagues. On Wednesday, an additional document was submitted to ADAE – an update with new data, and on Friday a petition was filed with the Supreme Court.

In his public statement, Mr. Spircis points out that on November 15, the day the first of the messages was received by the head of the Citizens’ Protection Department, he sent a question about the EPM to Parliament after the publication of the Editorial Gazette. “Probably, he didn’t open the first link, so they sent him the second one,” his interlocutor told K.