PM should be held accountable for wiretap scandal, Tsipras says

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis should be held accountable for the alleged wiretapping of senior officials by the state intelligence service (EYP), leftist SYRIZA opposition chief Alexis Tsipras reiterated on Monday.

"In any European country, the mastermind, the moral instigator - the country's prime minister, unfortunately - would have stepped down. He maintains silence; he is not giving any answers," Tsipras said after meeting with the head of Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) at the organizaton's headquarters, also referring to recent reports that a US and Greek national who worked on Meta's security and trust team while based in Greece was placed under a yearlong wiretap by EYP and hacked with Predator spyware.

The conservative government, which has denied knowingly wiretapping anyone, in late January survived a vote of confidence put forward by SYRIZA...