Greek court finds evidence of a joint EYP-Predator spyware surveillance operation against opposition leader and journalist, contradicting years of government denials
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A ruling by an Athens court examining Greece's wiretapping scandal found indications of a 'common center' linking the state intelligence service EYP and the Predator commercial spyware used to surveil PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis (while he was a sitting member of the European Parliament) and financial journalist Thanasis Koukakis, undercutting years of government statements dismissing any connection between state surveillance and the separate Predator infections. Androulakis, whose phone was confirmed tapped by EYP under a national-security order and separately targeted by Predator, has pursued the case through Greece's Council of State and, after Greek authorities did not fully implement that court's ruling in his favor, took the matter to the European Court of Human Rights. A related domestic criminal trial produced a first-instance ruling in February 2026 that is now under appeal, with a new hearing scheduled for December 2026; the European Commission's July 2026 Rule of Law Report cited the wiretapping and Predator case as an ongoing rule-of-law concern in Greece.
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