In the sphere of influence of persons who are said to be the main actors in the case of wiretapping located sensitive police services. On the initiative and with the mediation of the participants follow up officers were appointed to key positions, where they remain to this day, and sources at the highest levels of government announced their removal in the next few months. At the same time, several “unloved” officers retired or were transferred to cold storage, while there is information that after the August resignations, an attempt was made to return to the army by placing them in EYP. An offer that some refused.

As much as the ministry’s political leadership may argue otherwise, the wiretapping case casts a heavy shadow within the police. Mouths open under pressure. “K” became the recipient of information about physical surveillance by police officers, while more than one source of information reports that the same departments that are at least formally responsible for fighting corruption and collecting information are allegedly involved in the surveillance of journalists investigating the case of wiretapping. However, public order officials who were asked about this declared ignorance.

At the same time, officers in important positions in the security, economic police and other organizations are reported to be in close contact with influential individuals who are reported to be connected to some of the people involved in the wiretapping. In fact, when an attempt was made to move these officers, the march sheets were withdrawn on the “order of the authorities.”

One of the central figures in the wiretapping case involves a police officer, formerly of the Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office, who served alongside and developed close friendships with the Deputy Director of Police, who, while assigned to the EMP, was involved in the monitoring. PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis. The officer in question was “present” at the duty stations in Agia Paraskevi, having under his command a group of about ten police officers assigned to the EMP. It is suspicious that after the beginning of August business trips to the Service were interrupted both by the deputy director and the police officers of its team. However, some information sources report that, despite the noise that broke out, some of the “team of St. Paraskeva” managed to extend their stay in the EMP.

After the political events in early August, an attempt was made to return some officers to the EMP, which some refused.

Information from within EL.AS. report that these same individuals influenced the appointment in 2018 of the officer to the position of chief of the police information collection and processing service, where he remains to this day. Previously, the management has already made attempts to put this service under its absolute control, which, in particular, has a modern telephone control system. Her former boss, who was said to be unwilling to give in to pressure, fell out of favor and eventually retired.

During the SYRIZA-ANEL period, this same network of people developed particularly close ties to both the political and physical leadership of the Greek police, which they maintained even after the change of government in the summer of 2019. At the same time, they played a regulatory role in what was going on in EL.AS. – and not only – the attack on former police officer Spyros Papachristou, who was killed on May Day 2018, was attributed to organized crime.

In 2018, the current head of the department dealing with corruption issues also took up his duties. He was chosen by then-leader Konstantinos Tsouvalas and his then-political boss Nikos Tosca, whose names were included in recent wiretapping reports. According to K, there were thoughts at the highest government level about replacing him before the expiration of his term, which ultimately did not materialize, fearing the political side effects that such a move would cause.

At the same time, the leaders of EL.AS. and about the ministry, which some quarters say is linked to the wiretapping network, in private conversations they complain that they are being persecuted for trying to resist corruption. They “show” former and current officers as connected to organized crime and refer to individuals from the inner circle of powerful businessmen or even members of the Greek mafia who hold important positions in the mansion on Katechaki Avenue.

Government sources, aware of the attempts to infiltrate the police services, ignored the purges in connection with the coming regular crises in the House of Representatives. They wanted to send the first message a few weeks ago, putting the security officers who were dismissed as insufficient in place of the officers assigned to the EYP who are directly involved in the surveillance business.