Regarding the “brake” that Justice has put -at least for now- on a critical aspect of the high-profile wiretapping case involving the illegal Predator spyware, judicial correspondent Ioanna Mandrou spoke on Parapolitika 90.1 radio show “Opposite Microphones” with Vasilis Skouris and Sotiris Xenakis. As Ms. Mandrou emphasized, no “tombstone” has been placed on the case, because there are open legal proceedings.
Initially, on December 11, 2026, the second-instance trial of four businessmen who were convicted in first instance to multi-year prison sentences for the wiretapping case through Predator has been scheduled before the Three-Member Court of Misdemeanors, including Tal Dilian. Furthermore, as Ms. Mandrou mentioned, victims may proceed with lawsuits, which will make sense if new evidence emerges.
It is recalled that Supreme Court prosecutor Konstantinos Tzavellas ruled that the legal prerequisites for retrieving the case file from the archive and re-examining it regarding the crime of espionage, completed or attempted, are not met. The same was judged for the possible involvement of nine alleged accomplices of the four already convicted in the case, as well as for the possibility that the involved companies continued their activity in our country until at least 2024.
Ioanna Mandrou on wiretapping: For investigation into phone content, the
politician must go and hand it over
As Ms. Mandrou noted, “the prosecutor ruled that there is no new evidence,” while she also emphasized that “for there to be an investigation into a politician’s phone content, they must go and hand it over to the Authorities themselves. And so far, no one has done this.”
Tempi: “The serious issue is that the Greek State declared support for the prosecution only for four people”
Regarding yesterday’s trial session for the Tempi case at the “Gaiopolis” Conference Center in Larissa, Ms. Mandrou said: “The serious issue is that the Greek State declared support for the prosecution only for four people. That is, the State’s interest is focused only on the criminal conviction of those related to what we call ‘human error’ and not the other state actors, some of whom are charged with felonies. This is a development that is not honorable for the Greek state, as it makes a choice.”
She then characterized the climate prevailing in the Tempi tragedy trial due to objections and attacks as unacceptable. “The court must be left to judge,” she concluded.
