PREDATORGATE

39th hearing: All four defendants (Giannis Lavranos, Felix Bitzios, Tal Dilian, Sara Hamou) are found guilty of all three offences they face ((i) interference with a personal data archiving system, jointly, continuously, completed and attempted, (ii) violation of confidentiality of telephone communication and oral conversation, jointly, continuously, completed and attempted, (iii) illegal access to an information or data system, jointly, continuously, completed and attempted), according to the decision of the presiding judge of the 2nd Single-Member Misdemeanours Court of Athens. For the first two acts, the court adopted the prosecutor's proposal, which recommended conversion from continuous to concurrent offences. The court rejected mitigating factors and sentenced the defendants to a total of 126 years and 8 months (8 years to be served). The court ordered full service of the sentence, but granted suspension until the case is heard on appeal, provided the defendants file an appeal. The court accepted the prosecutor's proposal to refer the case file for investigation of criminal liability: (1) for the offence of Article 148 of the Penal Code (espionage); (2) for the offence of Penal Code 370 F (prohibition of software trafficking); (3) referral for Aimilios Kosmidis for complicity in the acts of the indictment; (4) investigation of the offence of false testimony in court for A. Kosmidis and S. Dalas; (5) assessment of criminal liability of persons who had full knowledge of what was happening, specifically Rotem Farkas, Merom Harpaz, Einat Semana (senior executive of Dilian's affiliated companies), Sotiris Dalas, as well as three Intellexa employees (Dimitris Xypteras, Ioannis Toumpis, Ioannis Boliaris); (6) referral for expansion regarding what Stamatis Trimpalis testified about the parliamentary inquiry committee proceedings for false testimony and moral authorship for G. Lavranos and S. Dalas; (7) referral for Konstantinos Petridis (friend of A. Kosmidis who was paid by the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP)). The court further decided "to permanently cease prosecution for all 108 victims who did not file a formal complaint".

37th hearing: Felix Bitzios's lawyers, Niki Orfanidou and Yiannis Kyriakidis, deliver their closing arguments. The two lawyers turned against the media that exposed the surveillance operations. "I respect journalists for their work. However, in this case they did not grasp subtle legal concepts and created a false picture, which they introduced into the court and ultimately believed themselves," Mr. Kyriakidis said; "all the sources of the press reports are completely anonymous and unverifiable, which makes it impossible to verify their reliability and the truth of the reported events. [...] The reports do not constitute independent evidence. [...] They incorporate subjective judgments and not judicially established facts. [...] They have not been collected in accordance with the prescribed procedural guarantees," Ms. Orfanidou argued. The lawyers did not align themselves with the prosecutor's recommendation (for conviction), while they maintained that their client was not de facto an administrator in any of the companies mentioned in the indictment. Mr. Kyriakidis argued that the court should not take into account the Predator messages allegedly sent to persons who did not appear at the trial to confirm their targeting. Mr. Kyriakidis acknowledged two completed surveillance operations via Predator (Koukakis and Siford) and another seven Predator message transmissions, one of which occurred while Mr. Bitzios was still at Intellexa.

35th hearing: Lawyers for the Predator victims, Zacharias Kesses and Petros Lianos, deliver their closing arguments. Z. Kesses spoke of an 'image of absolute decay' in the Greek Republic and journalism. Regarding the absence from the trial of New Democracy (ND) officials and military personnel who did not resort to Justice over their surveillance and were ultimately rewarded with government positions, he said that 'I can only think of blackmail or collusion'. He also added how the former Supreme Court prosecutor, Isidoros Dogiakos, 'was conspicuous by his absence' from the investigation of the wiretaps, except for the times he intervened to cover them up, while he analysed how the Supreme Court prosecution removed the wiretapping case from the competent prosecutors while they were investigating the existence of a joint EYP-Predator hub. P. Lianos argued that 'Intellexa did not operate as a simple private technology company, but in full partnership with EYP, so as to create a coordinated EYP-Predator surveillance hub'. He added that 'those involved developed a God complex. They felt invincible. They continued their activities without pretences. The godparent relationships between Dimitriadis-Lavranou and Lavranou-Bitziou occurred after the scandal broke in 2022'.

33rd hearing: Digital security consultant Giorgos Karathanasis testifies. Specifically, he claimed he prepared a technical report for Intellexa evaluating the case file, without knowing Predator, without knowing "the range of Intellexa's products," without receiving or requesting code for any company product. The witness also claimed he works for Mr. Dilian's lawyer and "not for Intellexa," without however mentioning his invoice to Intellexa for 6,200 euros. The witness also challenged the credibility of Citizen Lab, while admitting that he himself has no training in malware analysis and that he included in his report for Intellexa assessments from Twitter (X) accounts. At the same hearing, the lawyers for Predator victims submitted a letter from lawyer Alexandros Sinkas to the European Parliament's PEGA Committee, documenting Mr. Bitzios's acquaintance with the nephew and former General Secretary of the Prime Minister Gr. Dimitriadis, which had been described in the testimony of Reporters United journalist N. Leontopoulos. That testimony had been challenged by F. Bitzios's lawyer, Yannis Kyriakidis, without him ever submitting the letter.

31st hearing: Continuation of reading critical documents in court, as well as National Bank data on movements of the prepaid card (issued in Mr Kosmidis's name), from which the SMS messages infected with Predator were allegedly purchased. According to the documents, between 2/6/2020-16/12/2021, 165 transactions were made. This exposes Supreme Court Deputy Prosecutor Achilleas Zisis, who had archived the complaints of N. Androulakis and Th. Koukakis against Aim. Kosmidis based on only two card transactions, since he himself had requested from the National Bank the card's movements for only seven days (16.9.2021 - 23.9.2021) and not for the entire period of its use (without justification). During the archiving, Mr Zisis had maintained that Mr Kosmidis had "no relation [...] with any person at EYP or KETYAK," a fact contradicted by Aim. Kosmidis himself at the 24th hearing, as well as that "a third party used the card," although the National Bank itself has stated that a card can only be activated by its beneficiary through identification by SMS to their mobile. It was also noted that transactions stopped on the day (16/12/2021) that Citizen Lab and Meta revealed Predator use in Greece and the same day Intellexa abruptly removed its servers from a data center in Maroussi.

30th hearing: Continuation of reading critical documents in court. According to the documents read, Predator use skyrocketed after Grigoris Dimitriadis's mobile number was used to trap 11 targets and ceased after Citizen Lab and Meta revealed Predator use in Greece.

The Athens Multi-Member Court of First Instance rejects Gr. Dimitriadis's lawsuit against Stelios Kouloglou, in which he sought 450,000 euros in damages for defamatory libel over a letter sent in 2024 by Stelios Kouloglou, as MEP, to the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola.

27th hearing: Eliza Triantafyllou, journalist at Inside Story, testifies. Ms Triantafyllou testified that the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) gave a monthly stipend of 500 euros to Konstantinos Petrissis, friend of Aimilios Kosmidis, whose card was used to send Predator messages to politicians and reporters. She stressed that "the government and EYP knew what the Israelis were doing in Greece because of their work permits as specialized personnel" and added that "Intellexa had preferential treatment from the government. (...) It received permits for its employees and for Predator export in record time." According to Ms Triantafyllou: "Initially it was an informal partnership between public and private entities and from 2021 onwards the system passed into EYP's hands. KETYAK was the central installation point, this is what we have understood. It's not speculation, it's information we gathered from various sources." Ms Triantafyllou said "if the government didn't know about Predator, it would have moved heaven and earth to find those responsible," while in reality the government did not impose sanctions on Intellexa, like the US did, nor did the Authorities request information from Meta.

25th hearing: Sotiris Ntalas testifies, executive at Krikel and one of 10 witnesses called to testify on the court's initiative. Mr Ntalas repeatedly contradicted himself and claimed ignorance to such a degree that the court president said "You were not completely sincere today. Your testimony will be assessed together with the other evidence and the file may be forwarded." The witness claimed ignorance about Krikel's cooperation with Intellexa, as well as about the fact that in 2020 Krikel's client for 1.5 million euros was a company of Sahak Avni, collaborator of Tal Dilian. The witness initially maintained that Mr Lavranos was not connected to Krikel, but then said "I met him once or twice at Krikel" and that he had done a favour for an amount between 50,000-100,000 euros. Mr Ntalas denied any connection to Krikel's vehicle photographed inside KETYAK, but then admitted that as a Krikel employee he went to KETYAK twice. Mr Ntalas also maintained he was a simple technician at Krikel and that, although he had signed as managing director, this "happened by oversight, it was a typographical error." Mr Ntalas also admitted that he was the one who sent Mr Trimpalis the questions that ND MPs would ask him at the Parliamentary Committee the next day, while claiming not to remember when asked where he found the questions and how he knew how Mr Trimpalis did in the examination, which was confidential.

24th hearing: Butcher Aimilios Kosmidis testifies, owner of the prepaid bank card through which payments were made to send infected messages. Mr Kosmidis testified that he received a prepaid card as a gift from Cosmote "because I was a good subscriber. I never activated it and abandoned it." He added that he had an acquaintance who worked at a Cosmote store and "told him he was doing some favours for EYP. He didn't tell me details." At the same hearing, current director of the National Transparency Authority (EAD) Al. Rogkakou also testified. Ms Rogkakou testified that "the subject of the audit was whether a contract was concluded" and not the implementation of the contract, to which the bench commented "You were looking for a contract for illegal Predator software. That's what you're telling me!" Ms Rogkakou added that information was requested from the competent prosecutor of EYP, without further examining this information. At the same hearing, Artemis Siford also testified, stating that "The method of surveillance is extremely sophisticated social engineering, it wasn't possible for me to understand it even with my experience."

22nd hearing: Journalist Nikolas Leontopoulos (Reporters United) testifies. N. Leontopoulos testified that "As Minister of Digital Governance, Mr. Pierrakakis visited Mr. Lavranos at his office, on Sikelianou Street, in Nea Psychiko." He added that in 2023, at an Inside Story event about the wiretaps, Stathis Haikalis, associate of the Ministry of Digital Governance under Pierrakakis, was informing, in a joint WhatsApp conversation, Pierrakakis - Lavranos about what was being said in the hall. Mr. Leontopoulos said that "Mr. Pierrakakis refused to issue the Joint Ministerial Decision for the creation of ADAE's digital archive. (...) In this way the Minister did not allow ADAE to effectively check whether the Predator victims were also EYP victims." He added that "what I find interesting is that the Greek state tried to include KETYAK in the Recovery Fund to get a large amount, 40 million euros, and through that operate a cybersecurity center - this was a terribly opaque process. For something like that to happen, the mediation of the Ministry of Digital Governance was needed." Cyber Crime Division police officer Pavlos Kolovos also testified. Mr. Kolovos said that the Cyber Crime Division did not conduct an independent investigation into Predator, although it has both the competence and the personnel, and that they deal with surveillance software "encyclopedically."

20th hearing: Journalist from To Vima, Vasilis Lampropoulos, testifies. V. Lampropoulos testified that on 16.1.2020, Giannis Lavranos, godparent and "childhood friend of Mr. Dimitriadis," traveled to Israel with then Minister of National Defense (and also his godparent) Nikos Panagiotopoulos, under a false name ("Papadakis"). According to Mr. Lampropoulos, G. Lavranos showed him a conversation between Foreign Minister G. Gerapetritis and presenter Menios Fourthiotis, which in his estimation was "surveillance by Predator." V. Lampropoulos contradicted former ND General Secretary Konstantinos Tsouvalas, who told the court he had seen Mr. Lavranos "five or six times," saying that "Mr. Tsouvalas had a good relationship, frequent contacts, with Mr. Lavranos. Mr. Lavranos often went to his ministry" and had assigned police protection to Mr. Lavranos. He added that Mr. Lavranos had admitted that he sold surveillance software abroad, but not in Greece and not illegally. Mr. Lampropoulos claimed that the EYP wiretaps "were known to" the Prime Minister's nephew, Grigoris Dimitriadis, and that Intellexa executives "held meetings in the offices of an arms dealer in Chalandri," in order to "find access" to Maximos Mansion and sell him "security systems," in the presence of Mr. Kontoleon.

18th hearing: Former ADAE President Christos Rammos testifies. Mr. Rammos stated that "we requested the files from the Androulakis-Koukakis surveillance. They said various things. First, that they needed time due to a change in management; then, that everything was lawful; then, that they wouldn't provide information due to confidentiality; then, that they didn't trust us due to leaks. We never saw any files." Mr. Rammos added that the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) twice summoned Evangelia Georgakopoulou, the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) official allegedly responsible for transferring material from Predator surveillance to G. Lavranos's office, for explanations and evidence, but she did not appear, citing health reasons. He also added that EYP stated that transcripts from the wiretaps were destroyed, but did not mention the destruction of files. Stefanos Gritzalis, an ADAE member, also testified. Mr. Gritzalis stated that "During our investigation, the EYP director told us he didn't know if the file from Androulakis's surveillance existed. They told me the file may have been destroyed. (...) I requested a destruction protocol and the EYP director told me he didn't know if one existed." Finally, the court decided to summon ten new witnesses who were not included in the original list and had never been examined by the judiciary. Specifically, for December 17 the following were summoned: Rotem Farkas, Einat Semana, Merom Harpaz, Dimitris Xypteras, Dimitris Boliaris, while for December 18: Sotiris Dalas, Nikos Liolios, Eleni Milia, Evangelia Katsouda, Emilios Kosmidis.

17th hearing: Former Intellexa employee Panagiotis Koutsios testifies. Mr Koutsios claimed that Intellexa "worked only with state authorities", as it "always had police and military" in the countries where it presented its products. He also claimed that he did not remember the name of the company he returned to (after Intellexa closed), that he did not know the manufacturer of the software he presented to prospective buyers from state services around the world, and that he did not remember the third name of the software he was selling. He also professed ignorance of the fact that his superior self-identified as a spyware salesman and claimed that he only presented data analysis software and not Predator. Mr Koutsios received many remarks regarding the truthfulness of his testimony, with the prosecutor noting that "we are intelligent beings", while the presiding judge became exasperated, telling him: "Sir, I'm telling you, you won't leave here! I will forward the minutes", explaining that he would be charged with perjury. Accountant and tax consultant Ilias Kyriakidis also testified, who had undertaken the incorporation of Intellexa and two other companies in Greece and stopped the collaboration in May 2022. According to Mr Kyriakidis: "In March 2020, Ms Chamou and Ms Einat Semana came to my office on the recommendation of Felix Biju. They asked me to set up three companies in Greece." He also stated that the company had total purchases of approximately 2 million euros and sales of around 3 million euros, while the companies received a total VAT refund of 150,000 euros. He himself handled payroll management, with approximately 12 employees, who were paid high salaries, reaching 5,000–8,000 euros.

15th hearing: Former Hellenic Police (ELAS) chief and former General Secretary of Public Order at the Ministry of Citizen Protection, Konstantinos Tsouvalas, testifies. K. Tsouvalas said that "[Krikel] provided services for the proper functioning of the Tetra system," without any checks on natural persons because there were "guarantees from the political leadership." Regarding G. Lavranos, he said that "it appeared he had a role in the process, in the presentation of the TETRA system" and that "the prevailing view at the time was that he was a businessman operating in Britain on equipment matters. There were external guarantees that he enjoyed some esteem, I hadn't asked him personally." However, K. Tsouvalas himself had not identified a relationship between G. Lavranos and Krikel, while he declared ignorance of the legal representatives of both Krikel and Sepura. K. Tsouvalas admitted that he had been invited by G. Lavranos to his daughter's baptism, as well as that G. Lavranos had personal security from the police. Lawyer Ilias Spyrliadis, who presented himself as representative of Intellexa company, also testified. Mr. Spyrliadis said that "they had used me as a courier," as he simply managed correspondence, which he sorted and forwarded. Mr. Spyrliadis added that "the cooperation stopped when I read the news on the internet" and he sent extrajudicial documents to terminate the relationship.

13th hearing: Former director of the Criminological Research Directorate, P. Miniati, testifies as a witness (EYP surveilled her 10.5.2021 - 10.7.2022, Predator targeted her on 28.5.2021 and in November 2021). P. Miniati testifies that: "Shortly after the official message about the vaccine, I received Predator with all my vaccination details. The place, the time, everything. Among millions of people, it would probably be astronomically [unlikely] for it to be a random event." During her surveillance, her directorate was investigating, among other things, the murder of G. Karaivaz. During the same period she had received a death threat, while the then Hellenic Police (ELAS) Chief, Michalis Karamalakis, whom she informed about every development in the Karaivaz case, had been targeted by Predator in January 2021. P. Miniati stressed that the Karaivaz murder had been put "on priority" and that "they had to either change my position or retire me", as happened in spring 2022. She added that the continuation of her EYP surveillance after retirement concerned "access to information that was recent. Perhaps some people feared how and if I would use it". Alexandros Diakopoulos, former national security adviser to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and current CEO of Hellenic Aerospace Industry, also testified as a witness. Mr. Diakopoulos claimed he had no information about the existence or use of Predator and estimated that no indication or conversation suggested the prime minister's office was informed about surveillance, but added that "probably more investigation was needed" into the scandal.

11th hearing: Th. Koukakis's testimony continues. "It's disappointing. They didn't take advantage of the opportunity [to] shed light on the case. Some did it out of self-interest, because they remained in government, others out of fear," he said about the ministers and military officials who were targeted by Predator but did nothing.

9th hearing: The second EYP employee who was targeted with Predator testifies. She claims she was targeted because the previous month she had filed a lawsuit for sexual harassment within the service against former EYP director Giannis Roubatis (who was acquitted in the first instance). In her testimony, the witness connected EYP with Predator both because of the lawsuit regarding the harassment issue, as the next EYP leadership feared she might denounce them for cover-up, and because of the extrajudicial statement she sent to K. Mitsotakis, together with other colleagues (including the witness from the 7th hearing), about their transfer to a "service for undesirables". According to the witness, the order for the targeting was given by "someone within EYP or on EYP's orders". At the same hearing, Solomon journalist Stavros Malichoudis and Ioannis Fytilas (Stefanos Chios's lawyer), a simultaneous victim of EYP and Predator, were also examined as witnesses.

7th hearing: A former EYP employee (now working at the Ministry of Citizen Protection) who was targeted by Predator in November 2021 testifies as a prosecution witness. The witness testifies that she was initially transferred to an EYP subdivision "for undesirables" that had no responsibilities. Subsequently, after filing an extrajudicial statement to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, she was targeted with Predator. The witness estimated that EYP was behind her Predator surveillance and that "the service conducted no investigation into the targeting of two of its officials", meaning the witness and another EYP employee. At the same hearing, former SYRIZA Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis also testified as a witness, likewise connecting the Mitsotakis government with Predator.

5th hearing: The trial is postponed as the defendants claim that the document with the codes for unlocking the encrypted CD containing evidence from the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) investigation is not in the case file.

tvxs reveals that G. Lavranos's associate, Yiannis Karagiannis, appeared as "Gianni Pedrini" on a fake Italian identity card. The same article discloses that G. Lavranos had signed, as legal representative of ELECTRUM TECHNOLOGIES, eleven contracts with Piraeus Bank between October 2013 and December 2014; for these transactions, which totalled 8.7 million euros, invoices were issued that were characterised by the tax authorities as fictitious.

Former Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) Prosecutor Vasiliki Vlachou is promoted to Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos).

2nd hearing: The defence lawyers submit a motion to annul the trial, firstly due to the non-translation of the indictment from Greek and secondly due to the vagueness of the indictment. The court rejected the first motion and reserved judgment on the second.

The trial for the wiretapping scandal begins (1st hearing). The four defendants are Tal Dilian, Sara Hamou, Felix Bitzios, and Giannis Lavranos. Present in the courtroom were Predator victims/targets such as Nikos Androulakis, while all government officials and serving ministers who had been targeted were absent.

G. Dimitriadis's lawsuit against the journalists of Reporters United and Efimerida ton Syntakton for their investigation into the wiretapping scandal is heard.

Inside Story reveals that, during its establishment period in Greece, Intellexa had assistance from arms dealer Stavros Komnopoulos, who owns the company KESTREL AEBE, and his nephew Panagiotis Tamvakidis, vice-president until 2023 of KESTREL and co-founder of RAFNAR HELLAS IKE. Specifically, on 1 September 2020, KESTREL leased a property on Proteos Street in Paleo Faliro, where programmer Rotem Farkas, co-founder of Cytrox (which developed Predator) and close associate of Tal Dilian, resided while he was in Athens. On the same date, KESTREL entered into a second lease in Elliniko for Merom Harpaz, head of Intellexa in Greece and close associate of Tal Dilian. On 12 October 2020, RAFNAR, represented by Panagiotis Tamvakidis, entered as guarantor of the rent for the offices leased by Intellexa in Elliniko. Despite this, Panagiotis Tamvakidis was never called to testify, while Stavros Komnopoulos was not questioned about it when he testified as a witness before Athens First Instance Prosecutor Angeliki Triantafyllou in December 2022.

Reporters United reveal that Grigoris Dimitriadis had stated, in his testimony before the Parliamentary Committee on Institutions and Transparency on 1 September 2022, that he did not know Felix Bitzios, which was proven to be untrue.

Stamatis Trimpalis submits a first memorandum (a second will follow on 12 November 2024) to the 3rd Audit Centre (ELKE) of Attica, in which he states that he never had an active role in management, attributing its actual management exclusively to Giannis Lavranos. He also names as associates of Lavranos at Krikel and persons with special knowledge, the company's technical director Sotiris Dalas and employee Eleni Milia.

The US Department of the Treasury imposes financial sanctions against Felix Bitzios (beneficial owner of a company in the Intellexa conglomerate), Andrea Gabbatsi (beneficial owner of the companies Thalestris Limited and Intellexa Limited), Merom Harpaz (senior executive of the Intellexa conglomerate), Panagiota Karaoli (director of many companies in the Intellexa conglomerate), Artemis Artemiou (general manager and Board of Directors member of Cytrox), and the company Alidada Group (member of the Intellexa conglomerate).

Reporters United journalists Thodoris Chondrogiannos and Nikolas Leontopoulos reveal that during their testimony before Supreme Court Deputy Prosecutor A. Zisis last April, Mr. Zisis stated bluntly that he was not interested in the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) surveillances. Furthermore, Mr. Zisis showed no interest in evidence linking state officials and the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) with private individuals and Predator. Also, although Mr. Zisis was not interested in finding the masterminds but only the direct perpetrators, i.e., the employees who carried out the surveillances, he nevertheless never summoned for testimony the three Intellexa employees who downloaded the company's servers from a data center in Maroussi.

A 300-page report compiled by Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court Achilleas Zisis is submitted to the Court of First Instance. The report directs all criminal liability for the wiretapping to four individuals: Giannis Lavranos, Felix Bitzios, Sara Hamou, Tal Dilian. According to the report, of the 116 attempted Predator infections only two were successful (T. Koukakis and A. Siford), as "the other recipients did not open the links they received," something Mr. Zisis could not have known since he did not summon any of the Predator targets to testify (of the 87 natural persons, only T. Koukakis and A. Siford testified, but without being summoned, rather of their own volition). Furthermore, Mr. Zisis's report does not include 16 phone numbers from unidentified short-term disposable mobile phones ("burner phones") that had been confirmed (by ADAE) as infected with Predator. Additionally, according to the report, 28 Predator surveillance targets-victims had also been monitored at intervals by EYP (Greek Intelligence Service), representing 24% of the total confirmed Predator victims, but this percentage "does not lead to the conclusion that there was a common EYP-Predator surveillance center," while artificially lowering the percentage to 1% by comparing dual surveillances with the total of 15,000 legally monitored individuals between 2020-2023. Finally, although Predator targets included half the cabinet, including the (then) head of Greek diplomacy, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, the criminal prosecution is for misdemeanors and appears to concern only Article 370A of the Penal Code (violation of confidentiality of telephone communications) and not the felony of espionage under Article 148.

S. Kouloglou reveals that among the invoices collected by the Financial Police during the inspection of Krikel, there are two invoices issued in 2022 concerning payments to Ekdoseis Proto Thema Ekdotiki SA and Ekdoseis Neo Chrima SA (newmoney.gr), which belong to the same publishing group.

Inside Story reveals the list of common targets of Predator and the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP), as identified by the investigation of Supreme Court Deputy Prosecutor Achilleas Zisis: Manolis Grafakos (General Secretary for Coordination of Waste Management at the Ministry of Environment and Energy), Giorgos Mylonakis (then Secretary General of Parliament), Thanasis Koukakis, Christos Bardakis (Financial Prosecutor), Tina Messaropoulou (journalist, wife of G. Mylonakis), Giannis Olympiou and Thomas Varvitsiotis (founders of V+O communications and public relations company), Argyro Xagorari (for years a close associate of Mareva Grabowski, wife of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis), Kostis Hatzidakis (then Minister of Environment and Energy), Nikos Sigalas (communications consultant), Kostis Mousouroulis (Coordinator of the Fair Development Transition Plan for the regions of Western Macedonia and Megalopolis), Aristeidis Alexopoulos (then General Director of the General Directorate of Defense Equipment and Investments at the Ministry of National Defense), Lakis Lazopoulos (actor), Stefanos Chios (journalist), Fotini Ioannou (then senior executive at National Bank), Pinelopi Miniati (then major general and director of the Criminal Investigation Directorate of the Hellenic Police (ELAS)), Tonia Primpa (for years legal advisor at the General Secretariat of Telecommunications and Posts at the Ministry of Digital Governance), Ioannis Fytilas (lawyer), Artemis Seaford (Greek-American citizen and then Facebook executive), Mai Zanni (Maximos Mansion employee), Maria Diamanti (then working at Maximos Mansion), Spyros Kousounis (then serving as an executive at the Service for Investigation and Safeguarding of Public Revenues (YEDDE)), Menios Fourthiotis (TV presenter), Konstantinos Floros (then Chief of General Staff). It is also revealed that among the 87 people who had been targeted via Predator, confirmed by the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE), were: Takis Theodorikakos (Minister for Citizen Protection), Tasos Karamitsos (journalist and publisher of Proto Thema).

in.gr reveals the preparation of a Presidential Decree by the Hellenic Police (ELAS) for the procurement of surveillance software or devices. According to the report, the Presidential Decree was drafted by the Maximos Mansion and interest is leaning towards acquiring a new "invisible" surveillance system, more advanced than Pegasus and Predator.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejects Th. Koukakis' application against Greece. During Th. Koukakis' interview with the BBC in February 2024, Th. Koukakis had revealed that the ECHR proposed a confidential out-of-court settlement that included compensation of 8,500 euros from the Greek state. According to the court's decision, Th. Koukakis' disclosure violated the principle of confidentiality (of the out-of-court settlement proposal), for which reason Th. Koukakis' application is deemed inadmissible by the court.

The Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos), Achilleas Zisis, conducts an inspection at the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) offices accompanied by two experts from the Athens First Instance Prosecutor's Office for the wiretapping case. The inspection was carried out to determine whether those who were monitored by Predator were also monitored by EYP, eight months after the investigation by the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) which had resulted in a list of 88 Predator victims. The investigation confirmed that the persons on ADAE's list were also being monitored by EYP.

The Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) officially refuses to disclose to N. Androulakis the reasons for his surveillance, against the Council of State decision that called on ADAE to inform him.

Stamatis Trimpalis submits an extrajudicial declaration of resignation from Krikel, with an effective date of 30 April 2024. The document is served to the Amarousion Tax Office and the Amarousion EFKA and has as main recipients KRIKEL, based in Marousi, and ENEROSS HOLDINGS LIMITED, which has its statutory seat in Cyprus but, as S. Trimpalis writes, its actual seat is in Marousi, at the same address as KRIKEL and from where its management is exercised.

G. Dimitriadis sends a legal notice to MEP S. Kouloglou, demanding that S. Kouloglou apologize for the open letter he sent to the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, in which he highlighted "the problematic rule of law in Greece".

By decision of the Council of State, the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) is called upon to disclose to the President of PASOK, N. Androulakis, the prosecutorial order and the complete file with the material that had been collected. The issue of the constitutionality of ADAE's prohibition from informing those who have a legal interest about the surveillance of their phones by the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) had been discussed by the Plenary of the Council of State following an annulment application filed by N. Androulakis in November 2023.

The US Department of the Treasury imposes financial sanctions against Intellexa founder Tal Dilian, Sara Hamou, the Greek Intellexa, and four other legal entities in relation to the Predator scandal. The imposed sanctions include the freezing of all assets of the accused located within the US or in the possession or control of US citizens. Additionally, any legal entities owned, directly or indirectly, in whole or 50% by the accused persons are frozen. Financial institutions and other individuals conducting transactions or other activities with the named natural and legal persons may face sanctions or other legal actions.

Efimerida ton Syntakton reveals that an EYP employee who was being surveilled via Predator filed a complaint against G. Dimitriadis at the Athens Court of First Instance Prosecutor's Office.

A resolution is approved by the European Parliament condemning the undermining of the rule of law and press freedom in Greece, making references to the surveillance scandal, the Karaivaz murder, SLAPP-type lawsuits, threats, attacks, surveillance faced by journalists, the lack of pluralism in the press and ownership of Greek media by a specific number of oligarchs, and other problems. 330 MEPs vote in favour, 254 against, and 26 abstain.

The annual report of the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) for 2022 reveals that the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) and the Counter-Terrorism Unit had failed to send 6,705 lifting of confidentiality orders for national security for 2021 and sent them within 2022.

To Vima reveals that a microbiology laboratory, which is based in Nea Psychiko and served the staff of G. Lavranos's office, was the one conducting COVID tests for the staff located inside Intellexa's facilities in Elliniko.

In its annual report for 2023, Human Rights Watch devotes a large section to the wiretapping scandal and its impact on press freedom in Greece.

Former EYP Prosecutor V. Vlachou is cleared of the disciplinary investigation that had been initiated against her regarding the wiretapping case, and returns to Piraeus as Head of the Court of Appeals Prosecutor's Office. In her place at the EYP, Supreme Court Deputy Prosecutor Evdokia Poulou is appointed, with Supreme Court Deputy Prosecutor Anastasia Masoura as the second EYP Prosecutor.

According to a document revealed by Reporters United, Greece is a member of a group of states seeking to legitimize the use of spyware against journalists by introducing exceptions to the new European Media Freedom Act.

Greece is placed under monitoring by the Council of Europe on issues of rule of law and protection of human rights.

The Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) sends a warning letter to government officials that their telephone conversations as well as the exchange of written messages via the already known encrypted communication applications should not be considered secure and uncompromised.

According to Sir Herber, a researcher on military equipment and spyware, "[I]ntellexa is unquestionably part of the Israeli security apparatus. And it still remains so. Its statement that it has no connection with Israel is false. The Israeli Ministry of Defence's policy is clear: anyone selling Israeli military technology must have approval from the Ministry of Defence, regardless of where the company is registered."

Efimerida ton Syntakton reveals the existence of an exonerating report by auditors of the Economic Crime Investigation Directorate for the company ELECTRUM TECHNOLOGIES, owned by Giannis Lavranos, which was issued in January 2023 and archived by the Economic Prosecutor's Office. Alleged managers of the company were Italians with fake identities. This archiving occurred during the period when the head of the Economic Prosecutor's Office was Mr. Christos Bardakis, who was under surveillance by the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) and Predator. The same publication reveals that the representative in Greece of Gianni Berti (the name appearing on a fake identity with G. Lavranos's photograph) is "Loukas Katsaros", whose identity is also fake and bears the photograph of G. Lavranos's associate, Anastasios Karlis.

As part of the Predator Files, Reporters United reveal that messages containing a Predator link had been sent on 26 January 2021 to 11 prominent individuals. The sender of the messages appeared to be the then General Secretary of the Prime Minister and head of EYP, Grigoris Dimitriadis, although in reality they had been sent via internet services (Web to SMS) using prepaid cards. The messages purport to respond to these individuals' wishes for G. Dimitriadis's name day and contain a Predator link that resembles an electronic thank-you card. The individuals were: (1) Elina Kypraiou, deputy director of Mr. Mitsotakis's office in Parliament; (2) Dimitris Avramopoulos, former EU Commissioner for Migration; (3) Evangelos Pitteros, owner of a café in Kolonaki frequented by politicians, businessmen and journalists; (4) Giorgos Patoulis, Regional Governor of Attica; (5) Spyros Karanikolas, PASOK MP, later ND; (6) Nikos Papathanasis, Deputy Minister of Development; (7) Antonis Delatolas, publisher of Pontiki; (8) Vasiliki Vlachou, EYP prosecutor; (9) Georgios Politis, CEO of Euroxx; (10) Michalis Karamalakis, Chief of the Hellenic Police (ELAS); (11) Giorgos Paterakis, businessman, member of the Board of the Greek-German Chamber of Commerce. The same article reveals an Intellexa document stating it would act "on behalf of Krikel to supply the information system" to Sudan.

Inside Story reveals that the list of 92 individuals that the Hellenic Data Protection Authority verified as having received SMS messages infected with Predator includes the EYP Prosecutor, V. Vlachou.

Supreme Court Prosecutor Georgia Adeilini removes the wiretapping case from the Athens Prosecutor's Office and requests its transfer to Deputy Supreme Court Prosecutor Achilleas Zisis. At the same time, Ms. Adeilini, who had been appointed to this position in July 2023 by the Mitsotakis government through a cabinet decision, requests that the First Instance and Appeals Prosecutor's Offices "refrain from any related action" on the case. The news will be reproduced in most media outlets as an "upgrade of the case."

The Athens First Instance Prosecutor's Office, with a new document to ADAE, prohibits ADAE members from disclosing the list of 92 individuals targeted by Predator to the three-member body provided for by the new law on wiretapping, as this would mean leaking very important findings from the case file to third parties who should not have access to them.

The new composition of the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) decides against executing the prosecutor's order to examine whether the 92 individuals targeted by Predator had also been monitored through wiretapping by the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP), with Chairman Rammos and two other members dissenting. ADAE requests that the matter be referred to the three-member body provided for by the new law on wiretapping (Law 5002/2022) that the Mitsotakis government passed in December 2022.

Amnesty International calls for an immediate global ban on Predator spyware.

As part of the Predator Files, Amnesty International's Security Lab publishes an analysis of the impact of spyware on human rights globally. The analysis describes how Predator-infected links were distributed via social media targeting a wide range of public officials and government figures worldwide.

As part of the Predator Files, Amnesty International's Security Lab publishes an in-depth analysis of the technical details of Intellexa's products, including Predator. This describes and illustrates the user interface (of Predator) and control center, the surveillance network architecture, and pricing. It also describes in detail the attack methods supported by the products and the capabilities of each (1-click, 0-click, WiFi/GSM interception, etc.). Finally, the analysis provides recommendations to Internet providers and users for strengthening their protection against such surveillance software.

The newspaper Haaretz reveals that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert worked until recently as an advisor to Intellexa and was set to participate on behalf of the company in a meeting with the BSI, Germany's Federal Office for Information Security.

According to Documento, the surveillance of Nikos Androulakis by EYP was conducted following a request from intelligence services of Baltic countries. The request was related to contacts by the Chinese government to advance Huawei's policy.

With the votes of New Democracy and Greek Solution, the Conference of Presidents decides to replace the ADAE members whose terms had expired. Giorgos Bakalis, who had voted against ADAE's inspections of mobile phone providers at the end of 2022, is appointed as the new vice-president of ADAE. The Government Gazette (FEK) of the new appointments is published after midnight, a few hours before the scheduled ADAE Board meeting on the subject of imposing a fine on EYP for non-cooperation in investigating the wiretapping scandal. Regarding the procedure followed, Professor of Public Law Xenophon Kontiades states that this is "a blatant violation of the constitutionally prescribed majority (...) 16 is not 3/5 of 27 and rounding down is not conceivable when quotas are set for the election or selection of persons (...) Nothing like this has ever happened in the past. The signature of the Minister of Justice and the issuance of the Government Gazette were always completed 10-15 days after the Conference of Presidents."

Ron Deibert, founder and director of Citizen Lab, delivers the opening speech at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC), where he describes among other things the cases of Predator surveillance in Greece, beginning with that of Thanasis Koukakis.

According to the Irish newspaper The Journal, the Irish parliament's justice committee has ordered an investigation into the activities of Intellexa's Irish branch.

Inside Story reveals SMS messages related to Predator which were found during the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) investigation. The persons targeted by the messages were: Michalis Bekiris (appointed in 2019 as director of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' parliamentary office), Anna Stratinaki (General Secretary for Labour Relations/Ministry of Labour), Dimitris Avramopoulos (former New Democracy MP, former minister, former European Union Commissioner), Tina Messaropoulou (journalist, wife of Giorgos Mylonakis, Secretary General of Parliament), Maïa Zanni (Special Advisor to the Prime Minister's General Secretariat), Filippos Vryonis (businessman and TV channel owner), Alexis Patelis (Chief Economic Advisor to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis), Tasos Papageorgiou (Head of Security at the Greek Intelligence Service/EYP), Giorgos Patoulis (Governor of Attica Region, President of the Athens Medical Association), Giorgos Gerapetritis (former Minister of State, current Minister of Foreign Affairs), Kostis Hatzidakis (former Minister of Labour, current Minister of Finance and Vice President of New Democracy), Thanos Plevris (New Democracy MP for Athens A' and former Minister of Health), Michalis Chrysochoidis (former Minister of Citizen Protection, current Minister of Health), Adonis Georgiadis (former Minister of Development, current Minister of Labour and Vice President of New Democracy), Nikos Dendias (former Minister of Foreign Affairs, current Minister of National Defence), Theodoros Karypidis (businessman and president of PAE Aris football club), Alexis Papachelas (journalist and director of Kathimerini newspaper). Additionally, the targets included at least one Metropolitan Bishop and one executive from the National Public Health Organization (EODY).

The Cabinet Council under Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis selects Georgia Adeilini as the new Supreme Court Prosecutor.

According to an announcement by the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE), the Authority identified over 350 SMS messages related to Predator phishing attempts, 220 of which contained misleading links. Some of the SMS messages initially appeared to be related to the Greek Government's electronic vaccination application, but it was ultimately determined that they were not sent by that application.

Inside Story reveals that the Greek government was ready to sign a memorandum of cooperation between the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) and the Operational Technical Agency Skopje (OTA) of North Macedonia, with the aim of legitimising the use of surveillance software. According to the article, the classified draft agreement had been revised by Nir Ben Moshe, former head of a special unit of Israel's Ministry of Defence and associate of Intellexa.

According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Israel's state defence company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) had invested in 2017 in two companies, Cytrox and Inpedio. Cytrox developed Predator while Inpedio failed to develop defensive tools against cyberattacks. According to the article, the companies operated from the same office and "were essentially one company". Two years later, Cytrox was sold entirely to Intellexa.

According to avgi.gr, two days before Supreme Court Prosecutor I. Ntogiakos left his position, he summoned Katerina Papanikolaou, former member of the plenary of the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE), University of Piraeus Professor Stefanos Gritzalis, and two other ADAE officials to testify as suspects for the offence of leaking sensitive state secrets to wiretapping victim Thanasis Koukakis.

The Greek government, along with 5 other European governments, lobbies behind the scenes to add an exemption to the draft European Media Freedom Act, which safeguards states' right to surveil journalists invoking national security reasons, even with the use of spyware.

The Minister of Development, Adonis Georgiadis, admits in an interview with Mega that: "The surveillance of the Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff or of Minister Kostis Hatzidakis or anyone else that has been heard about, was carried out by the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP), through the legal procedure."

Intellexa has sent a second extrajudicial letter to the PEGA Committee, as revealed by the committee's rapporteur Sophie in 't Veld.

Efimerida ton Syntakton reveals that F. Bitzios and G. Lavranos had direct involvement in a series of tenders worth millions of euros, including those for the new identity cards and for the National Cybersecurity Operations Center.

Aikaterini Papanikolaou, member of the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE), describes in an interview with Kontra24: "The major problem, especially regarding the material that has emerged from the surveillance with the spyware, is that a repository, a reservoir of such recordings has been formed, and no one knows in whose hands they are today, where they might be transferred, on what occasion, in exchange for what, and for how long."

Inside Story reveals that Department B6 of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had approved, with the signature of Giannis Smyrlis, former Secretary General for International Economic Relations and Extroversion at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and later Deputy General Director of New Democracy, export licences for Predator to Sudan, Madagascar and Ukraine, following applications by Intellexa and Krikel. It is revealed that the investigation initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in November 2022 was completed by early January 2023, but the Government is lying to the Commission that it is ongoing, while Smyrlis was reportedly not even questioned.

Nikos Korogianakis, attorney of record for Alexandros Sinkas who was identified by PEGA as a key figure in the transfer of Predator from Cyprus to Greece, is announced as a candidate on the New Democracy national list.

Stathis Haikalis, owner of Communication Effect, a communications company connected through a series of public contracts to the Ministry of Digital Governance, attends the Inside Story event on the wiretaps. Additionally, journalist Nikos Moumouris, a political appointee in Minister Pierrakakis's office from 2019 to 2021, is present. Eyewitnesses document, including with photographs, Moumouris taking detailed notes on what is being said, with particular emphasis on Artemis Seaford's speech. He subsequently sends the notes to Haikalis, who forwards them to Kyriakos Pierrakakis and Grigoris Dimitriadis. Haikalis will admit to attending the event, while Pierrakakis in a public post does not address the matter at all.

Artemis Seaford, in an interview with News247, describes how her surveillance via Predator was carried out and its impact on her. When asked if the reason for the surveillance could have been her article about gender-based violence and harassment she had suffered from a minister, she replies: "It seems like quite an extreme reason for something like this to happen, but I cannot rule anything out. That would be terrible, but I have no reason to believe that was it."

The Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos), speaking at the Delphi Economic Forum, states regarding the inspections carried out by the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) at telecommunications providers that if he had known an inspection would take place, he would have "prepared the obstruction".

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs responsible for European Affairs, Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, admits that the government granted an export licence for Predator to Sudan, stating that "it appears there has been an export to Sudan".

An Inside Story report describes how Predator was deployed in North Macedonia in violation of legislation, despite government officials in the country knowing about it and doing nothing to stop it.

41 SYRIZA MPs submit a request for the Administrative Inquiry (EDE) report conducted at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding Predator export licences to be tabled in Parliament.

The Solomon investigative team describes how the Prosecutor's Office has linked 12 cases involving surveillance either by the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) or by Predator, which means that the Prosecutor's Office is connecting EYP with Predator.

Amnesty International publishes its annual report on Greece where, along with many other human rights violations, extensive reference is made to the surveillance cases of politicians and journalists.

Efimerida ton Syntakton (Newspaper of the Editors) reveals a lawsuit by F. Bitzios' ex-wife, Ira Maria Schneider, against him, in which she states that "the defendant was centrally involved in the wiretapping scandal."

A US State Department report makes extensive reference to the surveillance of journalists and politicians, among other descriptions of human rights violations in Greece.

Documento and the New York Times reveal that Artemis Seaford was being monitored by both the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) and Predator, while she was still working at Meta (Facebook). According to the articles, the Predator infection occurred in September 2021, via an SMS referencing the vaccination system, five hours after she had scheduled an appointment for her third vaccination and containing details of the appointment. The infection was confirmed after a Citizen Lab examination of her phone, after her name had been published on a Documento list. Artemis Seaford is the first confirmed US citizen to have been monitored via Predator in the EU. Regarding the surveillance by EYP, this is confirmed by an examination by the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) and covers a period from August 2021 (before the Predator infection) and several months of 2022.

The European Parliament's LIBE committee holds a press conference, where it expresses serious concerns about the rule of law in Greece, making references among other things to the wiretapping cases and the problems faced by independent authorities.

The Council of Europe's annual report on Promoting Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists makes extensive reference to incidents of journalists' surveillance in Greece and states, among other things: "the surveillance of journalists' communications constitutes an unprecedented threat to press freedom, seriously weakens the protection of sources and privacy, undermines journalistic investigations and creates a chilling effect for whistleblowers and other journalistic sources."

The heads of the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE), Ch. Rammos, and the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA), K. Menoudakos, testify before the PEGA committee. K. Menoudakos reveals that at least 300 Predator SMS messages were sent to approximately 100 people in Greece, while there are indications that it operates in at least two other EU member states. Ch. Rammos said that ADAE has not identified a specific person who has been affected by both Predator and the lifting of confidentiality (by EYP), although he did not rule it out, while he also revealed that every day there are at least ten complaints to ADAE regarding the monitoring of communications.

New Democracy MP K. Tzavaras, who had dissented from the government on the issue of surveillance and wiretapping, reveals that he will not be a candidate MP in the upcoming elections.

Intellexa sends an extrajudicial notice against PEGA, challenging the committee's actions.

The Vice-President of the EU Commission, Valdis Dombrovskis, responds to a question from MEP Sophie in 't Veld regarding the export of surveillance software to Sudan, saying that the Commission has communicated with the authorities of Greece and Cyprus to clarify the matter.

A debate takes place in the European Parliament on "The erosion of the Rule of Law in Greece, the wiretapping scandal and freedom of the press". Among others, N. Androulakis, Commissioner for Economic Stability M. McGuinness, (Vice-President of the European Parliament and SYRIZA MEP) D. Papadimoulis, SYRIZA MEP K. Arvanitis, MEP (elected with New Democracy) G. Kyrtsos and PEGA Committee rapporteur Sophie in 't Veld take the floor. On behalf of the New Democracy Greek Government, which had tried to cancel the debate, MEPs V. Meimarakis, A. M. Asimakopoulou and E. Wohzenberg expressed annoyance about the timing of the debate and about interference in the elections, as well as that the debate is untimely and misguided.

Kathimerini reveals that K. Mitsotakis has given instructions for the establishment of an Internal Affairs Unit and a Press and Communications Office within EYP.

Inside Story reveals the discrepancies in EYP's classified expenses compared to budgeted amounts: i) in 2020, the budget was 4.7 million euros and 14.4 million was spent; ii) in 2021, the budget was 4.7 million and 25.7 million euros was spent. In total, between 2017-2021, EYP's classified expenses amounted to 71.7 million euros, 42 million of which was spent in the 2020-2021 biennium. Inside Story reveals that of the 42 million spent between 2020-2021, 16 million concerned procurement for software production, while the remaining 26 million covered unknown needs.

Efimerida ton Syntakton reveals that prosecutors Angeliki Triantafyllou and Kostas Spyropoulos, investigating the wiretapping case, ordered a raid on the home of Evangelia (Lina) Katsouda, a close associate of Felix Bitsios for a decade, who in 2021 was registered as an employee of Krikel.

The leadership of the Hellenic Police (ELAS), during the evaluation process, decides to retire officers who are involved (directly or indirectly) with the surveillance case.

The PEGA Committee of the European Parliament urgently summons the Presidents of ADAE and APDPX, Ch. Rammos and Kostas Menoudakos respectively, for a hearing.

The President of the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE), Ch. Rammos, sends a letter to the Speaker of Parliament, the leaders of the parliamentary parties and the Minister of Justice. According to information, the letter responds to a relevant request by A. Tsipras, who had asked the independent Authority to investigate whether a list of persons in critical institutional positions had been placed under surveillance by the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP), and contains qualitative evidence - without naming specific individuals. After receiving the information, N. Androulakis and D. Koutsoumpas call for an emergency convening of the Committee on Institutions and Transparency, while A. Tsipras calls on K. Mitsotakis to resign.

The newspaper Estia reveals that the mobile phones of Dora Bakoyannis, Kostas Bakoyannis and Alexia Bakoyannis had been infected with Predator, as confirmed by a specialized analysis centre in London. The revelation will be confirmed a week later by the newspaper Documento as well.

According to Inside Story, the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (ΑΠΔΠΧ) has confirmed that, up to this point, 40 SMS messages with Predator links have been sent to at least 20 mobile phone numbers.

The President of the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE), Ch. Rammos, addresses a request to the President of the Parliamentary Committee on Institutions and Transparency for the committee to convene, in order to brief it on "matters of public interest, falling within the Authority's competences". The request will be rejected by the committee president, Ath. Bouras.

By decision of the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYΣEA) under K. Mitsotakis, the extension of K. Floros's term as Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff (GEETHA) for one year is unanimously approved.

A News247 report reveals that an ADAE team visited twice, during the first ten days of 2023, the largest mobile telephony providers (Cosmote, Vodafone, Wind), where it confirmed the tapping of the phones of six individuals by state intelligence services.

The Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) imposes a fine on Intellexa for non-cooperation. In inspections conducted by the Authority, two months after N. Androulakis' complaint, it found Intellexa's offices in Chalandri empty.

The Parliament's Conference of Presidents does not decide on the replacement of ADAE members whose terms have expired, despite prior pressure from the government. A 3/5 majority was required to approve the replacement, while New Democracy had only 2 votes.

ADAE President Ch. Rammos, in his response to I. Doyiakos' opinion, states: "no state body can exercise over [ADAE] any form of preventive control or preventive supervision (...) the contested opinion of the Supreme Court Prosecutor, beyond the fact that legally it produces absolutely no binding effect (as is known, in the Greek legal order only judicial court decisions are binding), blatantly violates the directly constitutionally derived independence of ADAE, which until today had always been respected."

Israeli newspaper Haaretz reveals that a company linked to T. Dilian sold surveillance software to Bangladesh's Ministry of Interior and that Bangladeshi military officials had visited Greece in 2021 and 2022 for training in its use.

The former Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, Eleni Touloupaki, submits a request to the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) asking to check whether she had been placed under surveillance by the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) from 2019 until now.

A. Loverdos appears at the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) to be informed whether he is under surveillance.

ieidiseis.gr reveals that "a very close associate of the prime minister and late 'tenant' of the Maximos Mansion contacted the management of the two providers, calling on them not to facilitate the audit for possible wiretaps on phone numbers requested by ADAE, on the grounds that the audits 'will be illegal under the new law'."

The plenary of the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) decides to establish an Audit Team, which will visit the premises of telecommunications providers Cosmote, OTE, Vodafone and Wind to audit all their records relating to the lifting of confidentiality of communications of various persons.

The plenary of the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) decides to conduct ex officio audits of mobile telephony providers, based on the published surveillance lists from the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP). In the same session, it is decided to grant the request of the Leader of the Opposition to be informed about the lifting of confidentiality concerning persons of increased responsibility. Members Dimitrios Vergados and Georgios Bakalis vote against, opposing the recommendation to carry out the audits.

Inside Story reveals that T. Telloglou was under surveillance in August 2021 during the major fires in Varympompi, Evia and the Gerania Mountains, which he was covering.

Police officers from the Cybercrime Division conduct a raid on a house in Kifisia, owned by F. Bitzios, which had not been searched during the investigations of 13 December.

I. Dogiakos states, during his address at the General Assembly of the Union of Prosecutors of Greece: "It is unacceptable that a section of the Press, exploiting an essentially completely ineffective press law, turns against and undermines anyone who, in the exercise of their duties, does not act according to its wishes, its instructions or even its commands. Some are not worthy of bearing the once highly honourable title and status of newspaper or magazine publisher. They keep as a closely guarded secret for themselves alone the financial background on the basis of which they became publishers. Perhaps, however, an extensive tax audit of these few would reveal much that is interesting about their professional activities."

I. Dogiakos confirms that he spoke with Cosmote's legal counsel during the ADAE inspection process and, although he initially expressed the opinion that the inspection could proceed, he subsequently "conveyed his view that the prevailing interpretation is that an investigation cannot be conducted because it is not lawful." However, I. Dogiakos categorically states that his opinion was not binding and that he argued with the head of ADAE's team, who was persistently requesting his written opinion.

Euractiv report reveals that an investigation by the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) at Cosmote confirmed that G. Kyrtsos and T. Telloglou were surveillance targets of the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP). It also reveals that during ADAE's inspection process, Cosmote attempted to block the investigation, with the oral consent of Supreme Court Prosecutor I. Dogiakos, but failed to do so.

The prosecutors investigating the wiretapping case send a request to the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) to confirm or deny the surveillance of the individuals described in the lists revealed in the preceding period. Meanwhile, more than six months after the first reports and the audits by the National Transparency Authority (EAD), the police conduct searches at homes of individuals and premises of companies related to the case, including Intellexa and Krikel. The searches find empty buildings, while in one case the premises were under renovation.

Documento reveals that Labour Minister Kostis Hatzidakis was under surveillance by the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) at least between 27 November 2020 and 17 November 2021. Kostis Hatzidakis was referred to in the EYP surveillance report as "target 5046c". The newspaper also reveals conversations between Kostis Hatzidakis and a television station owner, and with Thanasis Koukakis, Manolis Grafakos, Takis Hatzi and Kostis Mousouroulis. In a statement to the newspaper, Kostis Hatzidakis indirectly confirms the surveillance, stating that "I still do not believe in any case that the Prime Minister was monitoring me."

The bill "Procedure for lifting the confidentiality of communications, cybersecurity and protection of citizens' personal data" is voted on, after a two-day debate in which approximately 1/3 of MPs and all political leaders participated. The bill is approved only by the 156 MPs of New Democracy (ND), including those who had expressed doubts, such as Olga Kefalogianni and Konstantinos Tzavaras.

A New York Times article reveals a 9-page price list from Intellexa, allegedly submitted as a proposal to a Ukrainian security service in 2021. According to the proposal, the basic package for Predator is priced at 13.6 million euros.

In an interview with Euractiv, the head of Reporters Without Borders for the European Union and the Balkans, Pavol Szalai, states: "The wiretapping scandal is a 'stain' on Greek democracy that grows larger every week. And it will continue to grow until the Greek government and the judiciary assume their responsibilities. All of Europe sees the stain, only the Greek authorities refuse to see it."

Έκθεση της Επιστημονικής Υπηρεσίας της Βουλής επί του νομοσχεδίου για την ΕΥΠ διατυπώνει σοβαρές ενστάσεις. Οι εισηγητές εκφράζουν προβληματισμό ως προς το σύστηµα δικαιοκρατικών εγγυήσεων για την αποφυγή καταχρήσεων και ως προς την αποτελεσµατική προστασία των θιγοµένων από τη διαδικασία άρσης του απορρήτου για λόγους εθνικής ασφάλειας και ζητούν να αρθεί η σύγχυση που δημιουργείται από το γεγονός ότι το ν/σ εξειδικεύει τη συνταγµατική έννοια της εθνικής ασφάλειας ενώ παραμένουν σε ισχύ οι προϋποθέσεις του ν. 3649/2008 για τον περιορισµό του ιδίου δικαιώµατος επίσης για λόγους εθνικής ασφαλείας, µε διαφορετικό ωστόσο περιεχόµενο.

Οι Ρεπόρτερ Χωρίς Σύνορα δημοσιεύουν στα ελληνικά προτάσεις αλλαγών στο νομοσέδιο σχετικά με την ΕΥΠ, όπου μεταξύ άλλων καταγγέλλουν: 1) Έλλειψη δικαστικής εποπτείας των παρακολουθήσεων με επίκληση της εθνικής ασφάλειας. 2) Έλλειψη διασφαλίσεων κατά της κατάχρησης των παρακολουθήσεων. 3) Έλλειψη συγκεκριμένων διασφαλίσεων κατά της παρακολούθησης δημοσιογράφων. 4) Έλλειψη επαρκούς νομικού πλαισίου για τη χρήση λογισμικού παρακολουθήσεων. 5) Αόριστο ορισμό της εθνικής ασφάλειας.

former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras (ND) states: ""I don't want to believe that the government was wiretapping phone conversations. It would be unthinkable. If all this were true

the European Parliament's Civil Liberties and Constitutional Affairs Department publishes a study on the use of surveillance software. According to the study: ""Greece is one of the countries where Pegasus and other similar surveillance software have been used by government services targeting its own citizens. (...) Despite evidence collected by investigative journalists in the country

Ch. Rammos

Documento reveals a list of persons monitored by the EYP: Konstantinos Floros (General and Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff, KYSEA member), Charalambos Laloussis (Lieutenant General and Chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff), Thodoris Lagios (Former Director of the General Directorate for Defence Equipment and Investments (GDAEE)), Eva Kaili (MEP for PASOK-KINAL), Michalis Oikonomakis (President of the Hellenic Recovery Recycling Corporation (EEAA)), Panagiotis Kanellopoulos (Close associate of major businessman Evangelos Mytilineos), Giorgos Filiopoulos (Former CEO of Enterprise Greece, which is the competent national body, under the supervision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that attracts foreign direct investment to Greece and promotes exports of Greek products and services abroad), Aris Spinos (Journalist, owner of the blog edolio5.blogspot.com), Giorgos Tragas (Journalist and publisher), Giannis Zervakis (Advisor to the Prime Minister on synergy with Civil Society and monitoring of major projects funded by foundations and organisations).

Discussion begins in Parliament's Committee on Public Order and Justice on the bill concerning the EYP. In an unprecedented practice, the Parliament's website does not broadcast the discussion from the beginning, only after objections from MPs Dimitris Tzanakopoulos (SYRIZA-P.S.) and Sofia Sakorafa (MeRA25). Consequently, the introductions by Evripidis Stylianidis (ND), Dimitris Tzanakopoulos and committee chairman Maximos Charakopoulos (ND) were not broadcast.

A bill is submitted to Parliament titled "Procedure for lifting the confidentiality of communications, cybersecurity and protection of citizens' personal data."

On a television show on Kontra, ND MP and former journalist Babis Papadimitriou describes PEGA committee rapporteur Sophie in 't Veld as a "deranged leftist".

At the meeting of the Committee on Institutions and Transparency, New Democracy (ND) MPs Kostas Tzavaras, Evripidis Stylianidis and Andreas Koutsoupas are replaced by Giorgos Vlachos, Dimitris Markopoulos and Giannis Kefalogiannis. The government classifies the meeting as confidential, on the grounds that it concerns EYP activities, although the subject of the meeting is Predator. Only G. Dimitriadis appears at the meeting, while Tal Dilian, F. Bitzios and G. Lavranos refuse to appear, stating that they reside abroad. Regarding the opposition's proposal for a public committee meeting and summoning of witnesses, chairman Thanasis Bouras, instead of holding a vote, asked those supporting the proposals to stand; only the 9 opposition MPs stood and none from ND.

Documento lists the URLs, IP addresses and providers of the websites used by Predator in Greece. Two days later, Efimerida ton Syntakton follows with further details.

Documento reveals a third list of individuals monitored by Predator: Michalis Karamalakis (Former Chief of the Hellenic Police (ELAS) and current General Secretary of the Ministry of Citizen Protection), Vasiliki Vlachou (Prosecutor responsible for EYP), Niki Kerameos (Minister of Education and Religious Affairs), Giannis Oikonomou (Government spokesperson), Andreas Loverdos (PASOK-KINAL MP, ran as candidate for party leadership), Giorgos Mylonakis (Secretary General of Parliament), Tina Messaropoulou (Panelist, wife of Parliament Secretary General G. Mylonakis), Christos Bardakis (Appellate Prosecutor, head of the Economic Crimes Prosecutor's Office), Giorgos Stamadianos (Son of former President of the Court of Appeals Konstantinos Stamadianos, associate of then Transport Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis and former member of the Football Federation Arbitration Tribunal), Vasilis Andrikopoulos (Former head of the Prime Minister's General Secretariat private office and special advisor to Mitsotakis on development and entrepreneurship, currently executive at Karamolegkos company and board member of real estate company Premia), Alexandra Sdoukou (General Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Energy), Giannis Theodoratou (Chief of Staff of Adonis Georgiadis's ministerial office), Apostolos Pavlidis (President of the Eastern Macedonia Section of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TCG), former political office director of Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos), Maria Diamanti (Works at the Maximos Mansion), Lia Athanassiou (Academic, associate and partner of Giorgos Gerapetritis at the law firm Athanassiou-Gerapetritis & Associates), Meropi Komninou (Head of the Special Service Executive Structure ESPA at the Ministry of Labor), Pinelopi Maniati (former Police Major General and former director of the Criminological Research Directorate), Menios Fourthiotis (Trash TV personality), Nana Palaitsakis (TV presenter), Paraskevi (Vivi) Papoutsaki (Associate of M. Fourthiotis, periodically on his show's panel), Grigoris Dimitriadis (CEO of the Hellenic Corporation of Assets and Participations (HCAP), board member of DEH), Giorgos Gerardis (Financial advisor of V+O), Dimitris Maziotis (Co-founder of W2 Strategy specializing in crisis management, political and corporate communication), Giorgos Politis (CEO of Euroxx ΑΕΠΕΥ), Foteini Ioannou (General Director of Claims Management and member of the Executive Committee of the National Bank), Nikos Babalas (Business development chief officer of Wind), Giannis Fytelis (Lawyer), Lambrini Rori (Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Rosanna Mortoglou (Lead representative of Libra Group in Greece), Kostas Toumburos (Board member of ELLAKTOR SA), Giannis Papadopoulos, Giannis Astrapos, Anna Astrinaki.

K. Tzavaras is replaced on the Parliamentary Committee on Institutions and Transparency, three days before the session at which G. Dimitriadis, Tal Dilian, F. Bitzios and G. Lavranos are scheduled to testify.

The opinion of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) on the draft law submitted for public consultation by the government states, among other things: "it is necessary to clarify the nature [of personal data processing], as well as to determine the data controller and the supervisory authority, in order, among other things, to make clear to the data subject the procedure for exercising rights, the possibility and means of appeal in case of non-satisfaction. (...) the provision in question does not provide the necessary guarantees to be considered compatible with the requirements of the case law of the ECtHR and the Council of State, as the law lacks the basic criteria on which the restriction of the rights of natural persons would be acceptable (...) In the Authority's opinion, the definition [of national security reasons that the Authorities may invoke] has no application in data protection legislation"

Olga Kefalogianni (Member of Parliament and former minister of New Democracy), member of the Parliamentary Committee on Institutions and Transparency, states that "the issue of confidentiality can no longer be invoked in the Committee. Especially in the Committee on Institutions and Transparency, which according to parliamentary regulations has the right of oversight, no one can invoke confidentiality."

Kostas Vaxevanis, journalist and publisher of Documento, testifies before First Instance Prosecutors Angeliki Triantafyllou and Kostas Spyropoulos, who are handling the investigations into the wiretapping case.

Documento names the following as employees of Intellexa: Bar Lavi Yarden, Erez Offir (former captain of Unit 81 of the Israeli army), Einat Semana, Itai Rudi, Norich Ofer, Hayot Roey, Veiner Amir Hay, Eitan Shmuel Hetzroni.

The Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) publishes detailed observations on the draft law regarding the procedure for lifting the confidentiality of communications, stating among other things: "Article [4] maintains the old system of issuing a prosecutorial order to lift confidentiality for national security reasons to the prosecutor of EYP and DAEVV. However, this system is deficient regarding guarantees of transparency and effective protection of the right to confidentiality of communications (...) The proposed draft law still does not include in the elements contained in prosecutorial orders regarding lifting of confidentiality for national security reasons, the justification for taking the measure. (...) The prohibition of record-keeping by the Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court raises transparency issues (...) The competence [for ex post facto notification to the affected party of past lifting of confidentiality of their communications for national security reasons] is completely removed from ADAE [...] This regulation cannot be accepted"

Documento reveals that MEP Giorgos Kyrtsos (initially of New Democracy and later independent) was also a surveillance target, while targets of parallel surveillance by both EYP and Predator were: Kostis Hatzidakis, Alexis Papachelas, Alexandros Diakopoulos, Aristeidis Alexopoulos.

During a hearing in the Greek Mafia trial, the Three-Member Court of Appeals for Misdemeanors in Athens rules that the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) has the right to monitor citizens' telephone conversations by invoking national security reasons, even when there is no approval for such surveillance from the competent prosecutor. In the same hearing, evidence is submitted that EYP was monitoring journalist Giorgos Karaivaz, who was later murdered, in 2016.

The trial date set for hearing Grigoris Dimitriadis's lawsuit against Reporters United, Efimerida ton Syntakton, Thanasis Koukakis and the two reporters who signed the investigation that prompted his resignation is postponed. Eleven days later, "Efimerida ton Syntakton," Reporters United and Th. Koukakis file a Preference Request with the Judiciary, in order for the lawsuit to be heard more quickly.

Announcement by the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) regarding the draft law submitted by the government: "This draft law radically changes the regulatory framework that has been in force for almost 30 years regarding the lifting of confidentiality of communications and modifies in many and most critical points the operation of ADAE. Despite the fundamental importance of the content of the draft law, despite the fact that the Constitution itself provides in Article 19 §2 as a guarantee for ensuring the confidentiality of communications (a fundamental right absolutely inviolable according to the wording of the constitutional text) ADAE and, finally, despite what has happened in recent months, the Authority was never properly informed, nor was its opinion requested in an institutionally appropriate manner, so that this institutional draft law could be the result of a sober and scientific dialogue, for the benefit of the right. ADAE expresses its astonishment and institutional displeasure at this institutional omission."

A summary study by the European Parliament's Thematic Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs is published, which had been compiled at the request of the PEGA committee to support PEGA's mission to Cyprus and Greece between 1-4 November 2022.

A draft law for changing the operation of the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP), drafted under the responsibility of G. Gerapetritis, is submitted for seven days of public consultation. The draft law provides for: 1) conversion of the use of illegal software from a misdemeanor to a felony; 2) reinstatement of the ability for those under surveillance to be informed about the lifting of confidentiality of their communications, however only after three years and "on the condition that the purpose for which it was ordered is not jeopardized and after a decision by a three-member body"; 3) for surveillance of political figures, the procedure can only be initiated by EYP and requires permission from the Speaker of Parliament; 4) abolition of classified contracts by the Center for Technological Support, Development and Innovation (KETYAK) of EYP; 5) automatic deletion of surveillance content (audio files, etc.) after six months from the cessation of the lifting and retention of the file with documentation material for ten years after the lifting expires; 6) persons from the public or private sector (such as P. Kontoleon) are excluded from the position of EYP director and only a diplomat or retired senior military officer will be appointed.

Inside Story analyzes the connections between Intellexa and Krikel. Among other things, it reveals that the purchase of Predator, which was installed in a facility in Agia Paraskevi controlled by the Greek government, cost 7 million euros and from that point on the cost for ten targets per month, rotating, was 150,000 euros.

N. Dendias states: "my cooperation with the Prime Minister is a continuous cooperation characterized by mutual trust. (...) the Prime Minister's assurance that abundant light will be shed covers me completely."

Documento reveals a second list of persons who were being surveilled via Predator: Giorgos Gerapetritis (Minister of State), Akis Skertsos (Minister of State), Nikos Papathanasis (Deputy Minister of Development and Investments), Miltiadis Varvitsiotis (Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs), Orsaki Roussetou (member of New Democracy's Political Secretariat, participates in the "morning coffee" at Maximos Mansion), Eirini Exarchou (seconded employee at Maximos Mansion under Grigoris Dimitriadis, former seconded employee in Antonis Samaras's parliamentary office. Her sister, Foivi, worked as secretary to former EYP director Panagiotis Kontoleon), Thoma Varvitsiotis (president and co-founder of the consulting, advertising and crisis management company V+O), Giannis Olympios (co-founder of V+O), Argyro Xagorari (right hand of Mareva Grabowski in many business activities, staffs Kyriakos Mitsotakis's secretariat at Maximos Mansion), Olinka Varvitsioti (wife of V+O president Thoma Varvitsiotis, director of "The Art Newspaper Greece"), Vasilis Grizis (first deputy director of EYP), Christos Agrafiotis (board member of Kathimerini newspaper), Charis Koutsi (until recently special advisor for businesses and investors to the Prime Minister's secretary general), Elina Kypraiou (collaborator of Kyr. Mitsotakis since 2004), Michalis Bekiris (director of Prime Minister Kyr. Mitsotakis's parliamentary office), Nikos Sigalas (press office director of the Ministry of Labor and right hand of Labor Minister Kostis Chatzidakis), Spyros Karanikolas (until June 14, 2022 member of PASOK-KINAL), Filippos Vryonis (owner of television station Epsilon), Manolis Grafakos (general secretary for Coordination of Waste Management), Kostis Mousouroules (coordinator of the Just Development Transition Plan [SDTM] for the regions of western Macedonia and Megalopolis, former minister), Angeliki Roussou (former director of EYP unit), Giorgos Paterakis (vice president of the Hellenic-German Chamber), Artemis Seaford (manager of political cybersecurity policy for Facebook and member of the European center of American think tank Atlantic Council), Amfilochios (Metropolitan of Adrianople, former director of the Ecumenical Patriarchate's representation office in Athens), Aris Alexopoulos (rear admiral, general director of the General Directorate for Defence Equipment and Investments), Spyros Kousounis (former Anti-Terrorist unit officer and former security director at Coca-Cola 3E), Mahi Zanni (special advisor to the Prime Minister's General Secretariat, former partner of Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis), Giannis Anastasakos (close collaborator of former Minister of Citizen Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis), Maria Sarafoglou (journalist at Ant1), Spyros Sideris (journalist at Euractiv, i-Eidiseis), Petros Kousoulos (journalist, publisher of "Bam" newspaper), Stefanos Chios (publisher of "Makeleio" newspaper), Gratziela Kladi (works in the fuel trading department of Aegean company), Vangelis Pitteros (restaurant owner in Kolonaki), Tonia Priba (lawyer, advisor to the General Secretariat for Telecommunications and Postal Services), Tasos Papageorgiou (EYP security director), Takis Theodoratos, Panagiotis Zarkadas.

One week before the trial of G. Dimitriadis's lawsuit against journalists, the Reporters United website suffers a "spear phishing" attack that includes the creation of a fake website, the invention of a non-existent international journalist, and access to Reporters United's tax data that only AADE [Independent Authority for Public Revenue] knows.

In response to POESY and other journalistic unions, which expressed serious concern about the inclusion of journalists on lists of persons whose communications are being intercepted, the President of the Republic states: "Regarding the issue of telephone surveillance, I have stated my position in principle and clearly, within the framework of my constitutional competences. The investigation of the case is now before the judicial authorities."

A. Tsipras submits to Parliament a second topical question to K. Mitsotakis regarding the wiretaps, entitled "Were the 33 on the list appearing as targets of the Predator malware on an official EYP [Greek Intelligence Service] connection?" K. Mitsotakis will not answer the question.

After the Panathinaikos-Olympiacos football match, Yiannis Vrentzos, member of the Board of Directors of Olympiacos and close associate of V. Marinakis, states: "in the last three years a regime of lawlessness operated within the Government at the Maximos Mansion with Grigoris Dimitriadis as its head and other clandestine and illegal elements. Our tolerance of this lawlessness is over."

According to To Vima, "'Circles' around Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias point out that it is inconceivable and dangerous to imply that the prime minister was monitoring the foreign minister."

The PEGA committee delegation concludes its meetings in Greece and Cyprus with a press conference. The committee's rapporteur, Sophie in 't Veld, states among other things: "We leave with more questions than we had when we came. (...) The EYP files on Koukakis and Androulakis have been completely randomly destroyed. We invite the authorities to share the critical information." The committee's chair, Jeroen Lenaers, states among other things: "Only a few facts were revealed. (...) Not all those involved testified as witnesses. (...) We were surprised by the fact that there was no joint report but separate ones from each party." After the press conference ends, ND MEP and PEGA member Eliza Vozemberg accuses the rapporteur of "expressing personal assessments about the wiretapping scandal," a position that is characterised as offensive and causes strong displeasure among the other committee members.

Former Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition Alexis Tsipras (SYRIZA) submits a parliamentary question to K. Mitsotakis regarding the wiretaps, titled: "Elections with an active centre conducting surveillance of political opponents?" K. Mitsotakis will not answer the question.

Ta Nea reports on an influence centre that had targeted serving ministers, "photographing" Michalis Chrysochoidis as one of them. They also describe surveillance of private individuals and businesspeople, some of whom allegedly had contracts with the State.

New Democracy MP Olga Kefalogianni, during the conference "Institutional and Legislative Challenges from the Wiretapping Affair," states: "Clarification is needed, definition of the concept of national security, secondly a provision that will allow the person to whom the interception relates - if nothing emerges - to be able to learn that they were monitored and why, so that they can appeal to ADAE to be protected and thirdly, parliamentary oversight for cases of lifting of confidentiality concerning political figures, most likely with an amendment to the parliamentary regulations."

The Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry completes its work. The majority report, supported only by New Democracy, remains confidential and it is decided that it will be ratified after a public debate in Parliament.

N. Androulakis speaks at a meeting of the European Parliament's PEGA committee on the topic of exchange of views among Members of Parliament who have been targeted by surveillance software.

Th. Koukakis files a lawsuit with the Athens Prosecutor's Office against the shareholders and representatives of Intellexa.

Jeroen Lenaers, chairman of the PEGA Committee established in the European Parliament to investigate the use of spyware in EU member states, sends a letter to Europol in which he states, among other things: "There are concerns about the capacity and willingness of national authorities to investigate quickly and thoroughly. With every day that passes, the risk of evidence disappearing or being destroyed increases."

Through its intervention, the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (DPA) requests that mobile telephony companies preserve data related to the attempted compromise of N. Androulakis's mobile phone.

A debate takes place in the European Parliament between MEPs, the EU Council and the Commission, on illegal surveillance and the use of Predator spyware in Greece.

Press conference by Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the Thessaloniki International Fair. The Prime Minister receives 3 questions regarding the wiretapping scandal.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the scandalous exclusion of journalists from the Investigative Committee.

The PEGA Committee of the European Parliament holds a hearing on the use of spyware in Greece, with participation from journalists T. Koukakis, S. Malichoudis, Eliza Triantafyllou (Inside Story), the Secretary General of the Ministry of Digital Governance Athanasios Staveris, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice Panos Alexandris, and the President of ADAE Ch. Rammos.

Ta Nea reveals that the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) declared to the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) that it destroyed the surveillance files of Androulakis and Koukakis, despite the provision for their retention for two years. However, the newspaper itself raises legitimate questions with its front page, as it cites surveillance data on Spyros Sagias and Stelios Pitsiorlas regarding the PIMANA case and the Shipwreck in Zakynthos, a case dating from 2013 that continued for several months under the SYRIZA government.

The inquiry committee on surveillance convened with agenda items: 1) Election of Presidium 2) Discussion of procedural matters Leaks: 1) Before the vote, PASOK-KINAL requested the formation of a cross-party presidium (with a president from ND, vice-president from PASOK and secretary from SYRIZA), on the grounds that the initiative to establish the Inquiry was the party's and because the Plenary's decision to form the Committee came under the revised constitutional provision that grants this possibility to minority parties as well. 2) All opposition parties reportedly agreed with the proposal to form a cross-party presidium. 3) However, in the secret ballot, Giannis Kefalogiannis (ND) was elected president, Anna Manni-Papadimitriou (ND) vice-president and Stathis Konstantinidis (ND) secretary. 4) ND proposed and ultimately imposed, by majority, complete secrecy in the committee's work (closed-door sessions, minutes will remain confidential even to MPs who will only be able to view them in a special room). 5) In contrast, SYRIZA and PASOK proposed that the session not be broadcast, but that the minutes be made public, except for references to national security issues which would be redacted at the presidium's discretion. Similarly, KKE requested publication of the minutes, except for those relating to military secrecy, with the decision to be made by the committee.

The "Zero Hour Initiative for the Defense of Democracy and the Rule of Law" held its first event at the Athens Journalists' Union (ESIEA), on the topic of the surveillance scandal. Speakers included Thanasis Kampagiannis (lawyer), Xenophon Kontiadis (Professor at Panteion University), Nikos Marantzidis (Professor at the University of Macedonia), Elena-Olga Christidi (psychologist at Orlando LGBT+), while Eliza Triantafyllou (Inside Story journalist) also intervened. The discussion was moderated by Athina Skoulariki (assistant professor at the University of Crete).

Kostas Tzavaras publicly calls (via his article) on the President of the Committee on Institutions and Transparency to summon Kontoleontas and Dimitriadis to appear before them again, after obtaining permission from the competent minister.

Kathimerini reveals 6 confidential contracts between Krikel and the Greek State, for the maintenance, renewal and expansion of the Tetra Sepura communications system of the Hellenic Police (ELAS) and the procurement of a counter-surveillance system.

Xenofon Kontiadis (Professor of Public Law and Social Security Law at the Department of Public Administration of Panteion University) explains the legal reasons why invoking confidentiality before the Institutions and Transparency Committee is improper.

ND MP K. Tzavaras breaks with the government line and sides with the opposition so that the persons summoned to the Institutions and Transparency Committee would be examined in two groups.

Meeting of the Institutions and Transparency Committee with agenda item: Hearing of non-parliamentary persons, following relevant requests by Committee Member MPs, in accordance with Article 41A of the Rules of Parliament. Leaks: 1) Following the differentiation of Kostas Tzavaras, group hearings are decided. The first included former EYP directors Panagiotis Kontoleon, Yiannis Roubatis (EYP director under SYRIZA) and Thodoros Dravillas (EYP director under Samaras), while Grigoris Dimitriadis was also included. The second group consisted of current EYP director Themistoklis Demiris, Minister of State Giorgos Gerapetritis, Christos Rammos (head of ADAE), the competent prosecutor for EYP, Vasiliki Vlachou, and Kostas Tzavellas (Appeals Prosecutor, responsible for Counter-Terrorism under SYRIZA) 2) G. Roubatis: "No surveillance of politicians under SYRIZA—The mobile phone provider is responsible for the surveillance of the KKE telephone centre" 3) P. Kontoleon: "Never were the Prime Minister or his office informed about decisions to lift communication confidentiality—Briefings were given with official memos on investigation results only if deemed necessary" 4) G. Dimitriadis: Admitted he knows Yiannis Lavranos (Krikel). However, he denied knowing the other businessman, Felix Bitsios (Intellexa). 5) Tzavellas: "The duty of confidentiality applies" 6) Vlachou (regarding the check preceding a lifting of confidentiality and what information becomes known to her): "I requested that every necessary element be submitted. The request has six official signatures. If they are not satisfied, I reject. There is substantive control. About 140 requests to lift confidentiality have been rejected." 7) Ch. Rammos: "The surveillance of Androulakis did not become known through the Service, but through the mobile phone provider." 8) I. Demiris: "I have informed the Prime Minister about lawful intercepts" 9) Kontoleon-Dimitriadis-Vlachou: Invocation of confidentiality. It remains unknown what the reasons were for the surveillance of Koukakis-Androulakis, whether their files have been destroyed or not, and how many and which politicians were under surveillance. 10) Roubatis-Rammos-Tzavaras: "Confidentiality cannot be invoked in the Institutions and Transparency Committee"

Statement by Tsipras after his visit to ADAE: "ADAE must immediately investigate whether and how many other MPs and MEPs are under surveillance."

The PEGA Committee announces that it will hold an exchange of views on Greece and spyware next week (8/9/2022)

The Parliament approves Androulakis's proposal for the establishment of a committee of inquiry into the surveillance.

Special agenda of the parliamentary plenary. The PASOK-KINAL proposal for the establishment of a Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into the case of violation of communication privacy of the President of PASOK-Movement for Change and MEP N. Androulakis is accepted by the entire opposition (except for the absent Kouroumblis). Present from New Democracy.

Press Release from the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) announcing the conduct of inspections in the immediate future at the following services: Greek Intelligence Service (EYP), Special Crimes of Violence Unit of the Hellenic Police (DAEEV), and Information Management and Analysis Directorate of the Hellenic Police (DIDAP).

Pre-Agenda Discussion on the surveillance by the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP), which reports to the Prime Minister, of his political opponents and journalists.

Extrajudicial notices from Felix Bitzios to 1) Efimerida ton Syntakton and Reporters United & 2) S. Kouloglou and tvxs.

Hearing by the Committee on Institutions and Transparency of the new Director of EYP, Themistoklis Demiris. According to opposition MPs, in response to questions from members of the Committee on Institutions and Transparency from all opposition parties about whether other politicians and journalists are being monitored, beyond N. Androulakis and T. Koukakis, Themistoklis Demiris answered: "I have full control of the service for the last 15 days, no one is excluded...". There was no denial or clarification despite repeated questions to him after the controversial statement.

New Democracy MP and member of the Committee on Institutions and Transparency Olga Kefalogianni states: "I must remind that the replacement of MPs in any committee is a parliamentary practice that occurs at the request of the MP himself to be replaced due to personal impediment, something which in my case does not exist. I want to make clear that continuing my participation in the Committee on Institutions and Transparency, especially in this critical period, is a self-evident obligation and an imperative parliamentary duty."

Journalist Tasos Telloglou, as he will later reveal, is spotted by an unauthorized person in a building in Chalandri.

According to an article in Kathimerini, EYP was monitoring another 7 or 8 political figures using the "lawful" interception system.

T. Koukakis publicly poses demands to the Supreme Court Prosecutor, I. Dogiakos, ahead of his summons for testimony.

"The safeguarding of communications confidentiality, a necessary condition for the democratic functioning of the State": Statement by the plenary session of the presidents of the Greek Bar Associations on the occasion of the wiretapping scandal.

Request by A. Tsipras for Parliament to open and urgently discuss the surveillance issue.

Statement by the Athens Journalists' Union (ESIEA) in support of the journalists sued by G. Dimitriadis.

Statements of support from international bodies for the journalists sued by G. Dimitriadis.

MEP and PEGA Committee rapporteur Sophie in 't Veld, in an interview with Inside Story, states among other things: "If the spyware is illegal and not used by the government, then who else could be using it? There is no other serious alternative."

Αίτημα Ν. Ανδρουλάκη για σύσταση εξεταστικής επιτροπής για τη διερεύνηση πολιτικών ευθυνών για τις παρακολουθήσεις. «Ναι» από την κυβέρνηση σε εξεταστική επιτροπή εφόσον κατατεθεί αίτημα.

Μήνυση Γ. Δημητριάδη σε Θ. Κουκάκη, Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών και Ρeporters United για ποσό που ξεπερνά το μισό εκατομμύριο.

through G. Gerapetritis

where it remains for 10 weeks

Ioannis Vrailas

According to three MPs who participated in the Committee on Institutions and Transparency, P. Kontoleon and G. Gerapetritis denied that the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) was surveilling politicians.

Intellexa's headquarters is relocated to Chalandri.

Thanasis Koukakis files an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

On the sidelines of the reception for the restoration of democracy at the Presidential Mansion, K. Mitsotakis asks N. Androulakis to vote in favour of changes to the members and president of the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE). N. Androulakis, who already knows about the attempt to infiltrate him via Predator, replies 'You are in too much of a hurry'.

Angelos Binis resigns as head of the National Transparency Authority (EAD). A few days later, he is appointed as head of 'Internal Audit' at Frontex. His position as Deputy Director of the EAD is assumed by Alexandra Rogkakou.

MEP and PEGA Committee rapporteur Sophie in 't Veld sends a four-page letter to Tal Dilian with detailed questions regarding Intellexa's corporate structure and the practices it follows.

The EAD reportedly completes its investigation into the surveillance of T. Koukakis and sends its report to the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) for "approval".

Journalists from Inside Story, together with Haaretz's Israeli technology reporter Omer Ben Yacob, visit Intellexa's offices in Elliniko. Staff from businesses housed in the same building tell them that "they haven't been seen for 4-5 weeks" (while the EAD conducted an inspection in early June). (Note: the visit took place in "late June", so it probably didn't happen exactly on that day but on one of the previous days)

Intellexa revokes its lawyer's power of attorney. According to Inside Story sources, the lawyer had requested information about the sales contracts the company had concluded, following the first reports about Predator.

Inside Story presents a detailed profile of Intellexa, demonstrating that the company is not a shell company but a real company with real operations.

Th. Koukakis files a lawsuit against all those responsible for his surveillance.

Extrajudicial notice from G. Dimitriadis to (the management and journalists of) Efimerida ton Syntakton and Reporters United, regarding the investigation linking him to the companies Intellexa and Krikel.

The National Transparency Authority (EAD) summons the company Krikel by letter to assist in its investigation into the surveillance of Th. Koukakis.

According to a later revelation by Tasos Telloglou, on that day "in Kolonaki, [Telloglou grabbed] a man from the Internal Affairs Service of the Hellenic Police (ELAS) who was following [him] to a meeting."

Th. Koukakis is summoned by the National Transparency Authority (EAD) for an unsigned (informal, as it is characterised) examination, 25 days after the disclosure of his surveillance.

The National Transparency Authority (EAD) calls by letter on the company Intellexa to assist its investigation into the surveillance of Th. Koukakis.

Inside Story reveals that in July 2020 the first two domains connected to Predator were purchased. The article describes a series of other domains that were subsequently purchased, as well as the fact that each domain can be used to infect the devices of multiple people.

The president of the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) reminds in writing the Minister of Justice K. Tsiaras and the Minister of Digital Governance K. Pierrakakis that one year has passed since the obligation to issue the Joint Ministerial Decision providing for the creation of ADAE's digital archive. They ignore him.

Seven international journalism associations demand answers from the Greek government regarding the surveillance of Th. Koukakis.

The head of the Athens First Instance Prosecutor's Office, Sotiria Papageorgopoulou, initiates the judicial investigation of the surveillance scandal.

By order of the head of the Athens First Instance Prosecutor's Office, Sotiria Papageorgopoulou, a preliminary investigation is ordered to determine whether and by which persons the criminal act of violating telephone privacy in the case of Th. Koukakis was committed.

Inside Story reveals that OTA (Operational Technical Agency of North Macedonia), according to information from Skopje, contacted the leadership of the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) in February 2022 in Thessaloniki, where it was agreed that the two authorities would cooperate confidentially, and that Intellexa would play some role.

The Deputy Director of the International Press Institute (IPI) states, regarding the surveillance of Th. Koukakis: "The Greek authorities must immediately provide greater clarity and answers about how and by whom this invasive spyware technology has been abused in Greece (...) If the government believes that a private actor or individual is responsible, it should publicly provide evidence of its suspicions and law enforcement authorities should hold them accountable."

Inside Story reveals the surveillance of Th. Koukakis with Predator spyware.

The Solomon team files a criminal complaint before the Supreme Court prosecutor regarding the surveillance of citizens by the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP).

In a document signed by Intellexa and originating from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the company states that it will act "on behalf of Krikel to supply the information system" to Sudan.

Inside Story publishes for the first time a detailed report on Predator and similar surveillance software, based on reports by Citizen Lab and Meta. The same article describes the network of companies connected to Intellexa, as well as the profile of Tal Dilian. After reading the article, Th. Koukakis immediately contacts David Agranovich, author of Meta's report, who put him in touch with Artemis Seaford, Meta's cybersecurity head for Greece, and with Bill Marczak of Citizen Lab, to conduct technical diagnosis of the infection.

Deadline for transposing the whistleblowers directive. The directive will ultimately be transposed on 15 November 2022.

Investigations by Meta and Citizen Lab reveal that clients of Cytrox, the company that originally produced the Predator spyware, are located in Greece, and of the 310 identified fake websites distributing Predator, 42 targeted within Greece.

G. Gerapetritis, responding to Agence France-Presse, whose associate is Th. Koukakis, states that "there is no surveillance of journalists in Greece."

Attempted Predator trap targeting an employee of the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP). Similar attempts follow against other service employees who had sent a formal extrajudicial protest letter to Prime Minister K. Mitsotakis, protesting that they had been transferred to new sub-directorates, "freezer positions," without work duties and without anyone informing them about anything. During the same period, they had submitted reports to EYP director P. Kontoleontas without receiving any response. The attempts are revealed in an article by Efimerida ton Syntakton on 6 September 2022.

The "unwanted" Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) employees, who had sent an extrajudicial letter to K. Mitsotakis and filed a lawsuit against unknown persons, are summoned by the prosecutor's office to prepare a memorandum, within the framework of its investigation for breach of duty by EYP officials.

A phishing message is sent to C. Spirtzis's mobile phone with Predator that used the link efsyn[.]news instead of efsyn.gr.

The identity of Stavros Malichoudis is confirmed as the Solomon journalist whom the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) made nominal reference to in its internal communications regarding the case of 12-year-old Jamal.

The offices of opposition newspaper La Gazette de la Grande Ile (The Newspaper of the Great Island) in Madagascar are targeted in a bombing attack. Journalist Roland Razaoamaharo, owner of the newspaper, had been the target for the demonstration of surveillance equipment by Nexa company to the country's authorities a year earlier. The equipment included a surveillance van, which through Alpha Max software can intercept mobile conversations and messages and geolocate them, and Predator with zero-click capability, without requiring the victim to click on an infected link.

A. Georgiadis is targeted for the tenth time with an SMS infected with Predator.

Mr. Antonis Charitonos is appointed head of the Investigation and Public Revenue Security Service. The first decision he makes, six days later, is to draft a confidential document (protocol number 185648-18/10/2021) to the Athens Tax Office, ordering the release of Giannis Lavranos' accounts that had been frozen in summer 2021. The document was drafted by Mr. Charitonos alone, who is also socially connected to businessmen who were previously approached for collaborations by Giannis Lavranos and Grigoris Dimitriadis. Before Mr. Charitonos, the head of YEDDE was Mr. Spyros Kousounis, who was demonstrably under surveillance.

A. Georgiadis is targeted for the ninth time with a Predator-infected SMS.

A Predator-infected text message is sent to the mobile phone of the then-candidate for the presidency of the Movement for Change (PASOK), Nikos Androulakis. The message appears to have been read one hour after receipt, but N. Androulakis never clicked the link and the infection attempt was unsuccessful.

EYP employees, who had been transferred to a new sub-directorate that "had nominal responsibility" but "none [responsibility] in practice", send an extrajudicial notice to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, under whose control the EYP was placed immediately after the 2019 elections.

The Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) lifts the confidentiality of N. Androulakis' phone, citing national security reasons.

A. Georgiadis is targeted for a sixth time with an SMS infected with Predator.

A. Georgiadis is targeted for a fifth time with an SMS infected with Predator.

Intellexa's headquarters is transferred to the Municipality of Athens. A change in the articles of association now designates Sara Hamou as sole advisor-director and representative of the company, as F. Bitzios is removed from the position of director.

A. Georgiadis is targeted for a third time with an SMS infected with Predator.

French businessman Stéphane Saliès, head of French company Nexa which had been closely collaborating with Intellexa since 2019, informs in a conversation (which was the subject of lawful interception by French police) Renaud Roc (the company's number three) that he has surveillance equipment in Greece. The conversation concerned the export of Intellexa's spyware to Madagascar. The Mitsotakis government would shortly thereafter (November 2021) grant two export licenses for Predator to Madagascar.

ADAE President Christos Rammos and two members, Stefanos Gritzalis and Aikaterini Papanikolaou, sign an article expressing their opposition to the amendment passed on 31 March 2021, arguing that the amendment violates the constitutionally guaranteed protection of communications secrecy and the right to respect for private and family life of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

An amendment is submitted to a Justice Ministry bill providing for the issuance of a Joint Ministerial Decision by Justice Minister K. Tsiaras and Digital Governance Minister K. Pierrakakis. Based on the amendment, the EYP and Counter-Terrorism Service must send digitally and in encrypted form to ADAE and telecommunications providers the prosecutor's orders based on which surveillance is conducted. Encrypted transmission would ensure the secure and immediate transfer of orders to ADAE and allow the Authority to create a digital archive. To date, the Joint Ministerial Decision has not been issued.

The Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) contacts the EYP Prosecutor regarding whether the legal conditions are met for informing Th. Koukakis about the lifting of his communications secrecy.

Law 4782/2021 is passed. Based on articles 21 and 168, article 33 of 3433/2006 is amended as follows: 1) The maximum limit of participation guarantee is reduced from 5% to 2% 2) The maximum limit of performance guarantee is reduced to 5% from 10% 3) The requirement for participation guarantee in framework agreements and negotiation procedures without publication of a call is abolished.

A. Georgiadis is targeted for a second time with an SMS infected with Predator.

Η Intellexa συνάπτει νέα σύμβαση με data-center στο Μαρούσι, υπερτετραπλασιάζοντας τη χωρητικότητά των racks της από 10 σε 42 U (μονάδα μέτρησης).

Grigoris Dimitriadis

a close partner of Intellexa based in France

230 plus VAT to Krikel for the supply of computer equipment (server

one with an academic and one with Kerin Hope

A payment of 155,000 euros is created from Intellexa (a company that trades Predator) through the European payment system (SEPA) to Krikel (interests of G. Lavranos and official supplier to the Public Sector) and on the same day an equal amount outgoing from Krikel to Intellexa. The same month, the first pseudonymous domains are purchased for trapping and surveilling targets with Predator within Greece.

Through amendment 390-3 of Law 4704/2020, KETYAK (Center for Technological Support, Development and Innovation) is created, an "independent service" within the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP). KETYAK will be able to sign confidential contracts with entities under a regime of complete lack of transparency, as, according to the amendment, "such acts are not published in the Government Gazette and are not posted on the Diavgeia transparency program."

The Greek Intelligence Service (EYP), with order no. E2402/2020, requests Cosmote to lift the confidentiality of a mobile number maintained by Th. Koukakis. The lifting is requested for two months, until August 1, 2020, citing national security reasons.

Intellexa is registered in the General Commercial Registry (GEMI). Felix Bitzios is appointed as deputy advisor-director. A few days later, the term "SINGLE MEMBER" will be removed from the company's title.

INTELLEXA SINGLE-MEMBER SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME is established by the company's accountant acting as representative and attorney-in-fact of the Irish Limited Liability Company THALESTRIS LIMITED, headquartered in Kifisia with initial capital of 26,000 euros. Sara Alexandra Hamou, second wife of Tal Dilian, is appointed as advisor-director and sole member of the first Board of Directors.

Eledyn, owned by G. Dimitriadis, acquires (for €1,000) Canalis, a company also active in electricity production.

G. Dimitriadis establishes Eledyn, a company active in "the production, sale and general distribution of electricity from renewable energy sources (RES)."

Law 4637/2019 is published. Through Article 15 (which was amended by Article 18 of Law 4664/2020), until May 19, 2020, orders of the President of the Authority for Combating Money Laundering from Criminal Activities, issued [...] before the publication of this law and for which 18 months (9+9) have elapsed, are forwarded with the relevant freezing documents and a copy of the case file to the investigating judge (if the case is pending at the investigation stage) or to the competent judicial council (in any other case), which decides on the validation or not of the order of the President of the Authority for Combating Money Laundering from Criminal Activities. In case of the expiration of the deadline of the first paragraph without action, the order of the President of the Authority for Combating Money Laundering from Criminal Activities automatically ceases to be valid.

Journalist Thanasis Koukakis publishes an article in the Financial Times regarding transactions of Piraeus Bank with banker Michalis Sallas, former head of the bank, and the Libra business group of shipowner Giorgos Logothetis. In the following months, Th. Koukakis publishes a series of articles in the FT, Inside Story, the Cypriot Politis, Documento, and ereportaz, demonstrating how these transactions allegedly caused losses to the bank.

T. Dilian demonstrates his surveillance van to Forbes, which operates in Cyprus. After the video's publication, a scandal erupts in Cyprus and T. Dilian discontinues his activities there. In 2022, the country's judicial authorities will impose a fine of almost €1 million on Wispear, the company that owns the van and is a predecessor to Intellexa.

Angelos Binis, close friend and best man of K. Mitsotakis, is selected as head of the newly established National Transparency Authority (EAD). His appointment will be judged by the Parliamentary Committee on Institutions and Transparency on July 7, 2021 with the affirmative vote of only ND.

Beginning of Panagiotis Kontoleon's term as director of EYP. P. Kontoleon holds a recognized degree from the Open University of the United Kingdom in Music, started his career as a guard at the US Embassy and had worked at one and only one company, G4S.

The contract is signed between the Ministry of Citizen Protection and Krikel for the provision of maintenance services for the TETRA encrypted communications system for a total of 8.8 million euros plus VAT (1.6 million euros annually) with a duration of 5.5 years (1/7/2018-31/12/2023). The TETRA system had previously been donated to the Greek state by the company Ioniki Single-Member Limited Liability Company, which belonged to G. Lavranos, and Lamas Pinto Consulting.

Cypriot company Viniato Holdings Limited, owned by Felix Bitzios, signs a contract to provide services to Krikel for 550,000 euros.

KRIKEL SINGLE-MEMBER LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY is established with initial capital of 5

The Board of Directors of ELECTRUM TECHNOLOGIES company changes. Italian Antonio Sassi replaces Yiannis Lavranos as chairman and managing director. However, according to the Italian Ministry of Interior, Mr. Sassi's identity had been stolen years earlier (on March 12, 2012) in the Pompeii area. Similarly, the identity of another ELECTRUM board member, Giorgio Antonelli, was also stolen. The accountant who appears to sign ELECTRUM's financial statements will tell Efimerida ton Syntakton that the signature is not hers and she knows neither the companies nor Lavranos.