Greek Premier Says He Was Unaware of Phone Tapping Operations
- Mitsotakis calls the surveillance operation legal, but wrong
- The government pledges to reform its intelligence services
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he was unaware that Greece’s national intelligence service monitored the mobile phone of an opposition politician, and the premier pledged to reform how the unit is supervised.
“What was done, may have been in accordance with the letter of the law, but it was wrong -- I was not aware of it and obviously I would have never allowed it,” Mitsotakis said in a statement on Monday. Mitsotakis said he only learned of the phone tap a few days ago.