Sixteen prominent legal experts blast chief prosecutor’s intervention on ADAE

Sixteen prominent constitutional law professors have strongly criticised Greece's chief prosecutor Isidoros Dogiakos after he issued a controversial legal opinion arguing that the independent authority responsible for privacy, ADAE, cannot conduct audits of telecommunication companies to find out who is under surveillance by the country's intelligence agency.

Dogiakos went a step further and warned the members of ADAE with criminal prosecution if they continued with their audits. The prosecutor's intervention came after ADAE discovered during a raid in telecommunication giant OTE last December that the phones of Renew Europe MEP Giorgos Kyrtsos and investigative journalist Tasos Telloglou (who is investigating the wiretapping scandal) were bugged.

"We point out that this thinly veiled threat is in no way the proper way to overcome the disagreements of two authorities...