(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 05 - The director of Greek intelligence services (Eyp) Panagiotis Kontoleon resigned today after an alleged espionage scandal exploded against a politician and a journalist carried out using the illegal software Predator.
This was announced by the office of the Greek prime minister, quoted by the Greek media.
"The director of national intelligence services Panagiotis Kontoleon has resigned the resignations (...) that have been accepted by the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis", reads a statement.
The resignation comes a week after the revelation of the attempt to listen to the conversations of the leader of the Greek Socialist Party (Pasok / Kinal), Nikos Androulakis, who is in the opposition, using Predator.
The same 'spyware' would have been used to intercept the conversations of the journalist Thanasis Koukakis of CNN Greece, author of investigations on financial crimes.
Previously, the Prime Minister's Secretary General, Grigoris Dimitriadis, officially resigned to avoid "political speculation" on the case.
The intelligence services in Greece depend on the premier's office.
The Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador ThemistoklisDemiris (former ambassador of Greece in Italy) now goes in place of Kontoleon, who "will inform the Commission for Institutions and Transparency after the resumption of the work of the Parliament", adds the note from the President of the Hellenic council.
(HANDLE).