Commenting on the split in the wiretapping case file, Kesses said justice had been given another opportunity to do its job.

‘Justice has a second chance to do the obvious, to do its job,’ he said.

He also expressed strong opposition to any repeat of the failures of the past.

‘I find it inconceivable that, in 2026, the same mistakes made in 2024 could be made again, in the sense that things which the Athens Single-Member Misdemeanours Court found obvious cannot be seen by a prosecutor of the Supreme Court. There is a second chance, and I remind you that eight out of 10 Greek citizens do not trust the Greek justice system,’ he said.

He warned that ‘if some prosecutors dare not do their job, fail to see the obvious, fail even to see an attempted act of espionage when, for example, the foreign minister was targeted while on an official international mission, then we will be dealing with a very different situation, and the price to be paid will be far greater’.

Kesses said all victims should be called to testify, stressing that they had a duty to account for what they knew.

‘Out of the 87 victims, around 10 have appeared before the Single-Member Misdemeanours Court. The absolute priority is those victims who held critical portfolios. These are the people who should be investigated first, and they should also be asked why, since 2023, when they were informed by registered letter from the Hellenic Data Protection Authority that they had been targeted, they have taken no action. They have an obligation to be accountable.’

Referring to revelations by To Vima and journalist Vasilis Lambropoulos, he argued that there were indications of cooperation between Intellexa and state bodies, and that the company’s activities were known to the authorities.

‘The memorandum of cooperation between Intellexa and 10 other companies was signed with the Centre for Security Studies, which acts as the state’s technical adviser on security issues and specialises in border security, cybersecurity and crime. It is a service headed by the commander of the National Intelligence Service. In order to contract with it, the service knows exactly which company you are. Unfortunately for them, Intellexa, worldwide, including at the international arms exhibitions it attended in 2020 and 2021, presented one product: the Predator spyware. So no one can say, without lying, that the Centre for Security Studies did not know in 2021 that Intellexa was a company dealing exclusively in spyware.’

Finally, he described the investigation into the wiretapping scandal up to 2024 as superficial, saying that even basic lines of inquiry had been neglected.

‘They did not even examine the incoming and outgoing registry at the National Intelligence Service and at KETYAK, which is allegedly the service where Predator was installed,’ he said.

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