Wiretapping Scandal Filed Away for a Third Time

Four years after the storm of reactions triggered by the revelation of the wiretapping scandal, which continues to weigh heavily on political life amid strong criticism over institutional issues, the Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court has once again ruled that no further investigation is required, rejecting requests for the case file to be retrieved from the archives.

Supreme Court prosecutor Evangelos Bakelas, who undertook the examination and assessment of the requests — four in total — reached a negative decision on any further investigation, citing legal grounds.

“Legal acrobatics” and “pretexts”

The legal grounds cited by the Supreme Court prosecutor were criticized by lawyer Zacharias Kesses, who had submitted two of the four requests to retrieve the case file, as “interpretive acrobatics that depart from the purpose of the law and are used as a pretext to avoid any substantive examination of the new evidence.”