Wiretapping: Cover-up signed by the supreme court prosecutor – Case not reopened

The Prosecutor of the Supreme Court ruled that the wiretapping case will not be retrieved from the archives. The Supreme Court effectively discards the widely discussed ruling of the Single-Member Court of First Instance of Athens, which had paved the way for an extensive investigation into wiretapping through the Predator system.

The country’s highest court, to which the ruling had been forwarded in order to determine whether and how further investigation should proceed—as requested by the court’s president, Mr. Askianakis—decided that the conditions are not met for any issue whatsoever to be examined.

Specifically, the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, in his decision dated April 27, 2026, issued in response to the wiretapping case submitted to him by the Athens First Instance Prosecutor following the relevant ruling of the Single-Member Misdemeanor Court of Athens, regarding any actions he might take under Article 43 paragraph 6 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, concluded that there are no grounds to retrieve the case file from the archives of the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office and re-examine it.

According to sources, “the elements invoked by the Single-Member Misdemeanor Court of Athens, in the judgment of the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, do not constitute new evidence under Article 43 paragraph 6 of the Code of Criminal Procedure sufficient to justify retrieving the case file from the archives. Consequently, the conclusions of the findings by Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court Achilleas Zisis are not overturned.”