Wiretapping Case File Shelved – Supreme Court Prosecutor Rejects the Four Requests for a Renewed Investigation

“The wiretapping case will remain an open wound for the rule of law and democracy itself in Greece, as long as the case file stays shelved and multiple questions remain unanswered.” Such was the response of legal sources yesterday to news that, for the third time, with the rubber stamp of the Judiciary, the case file relating to the wiretapping scandal is to remain in the archives, with no new substantive investigation.

As the nation learned yesterday, Supreme Court Prosecutor Evangelos Bakelas, through relevant rulings, had determined for technical legal reasons that there are no grounds at present to retrieve the wiretapping case file from the archives.

However, sources within the Judiciary noted in the wake of the latest development that the decision not to retrieve the file from the archives does not mean the case will remain shelved forever. On the contrary, as they explained, should new facts emerge which are then brought to the attention of the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office, the case can be retrieved and a new round of investigations begun. Until that