Fresh allegations in a Greek phone-hacking scandal
The government’s reputation is being dented
Greece’s government has tried for months to keep a lid on a simmering scandal over the wiretapping of a journalist and two left-of-centre politicians. But on November 5th Documento, an investigative weekly, published a list of 33 prominent Greeks, among them several cabinet members and a former prime minister, whose mobile phones were reportedly targeted for hacking by Predator, a bit of Israeli-made spyware.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Who’s spying on whom?”
Europe November 12th 2022
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- The particular problems of fighting in the Ukrainian autumn
- The European Commission wants to be in charge of new fiscal rules
- France is preparing for a new kind of war
- Fresh allegations in a Greek phone-hacking scandal
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