Wiretapping Scandal: No Matter How Many Times a Regime in Power “Files Away” a Case, that Does not Mean it Cannot, and Should not, be Reopened

The Supreme Court Prosecutor’s refusal to reopen the wiretapping case file from the archive reinforces the allegations of manipulation of the upper echelons of the judiciary by the government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. This is the third time that an obstacle has been placed at the highest level of the criminal justice system against a thorough investigation of the wiretapping scandal.

And this despite the fact that it is clear, as respected legal experts confirm, that far more evidence has come to light than was available when the notorious Zisis report was written — a report that identified responsibility only among certain “private individuals” and not among political figures — most of it through the hearing proceedings at the Single-Member Court of First Instance that convicted the four private individuals referred for prosecution on the basis of the Zisis report to heavy sentences, and called for the investigation to be expanded to cover other individuals whose role came to light during the trial.

Evidence that was added to what investigative journalism had already brought to light, as well