The head of the Greek Intelligence Service (EYP) on Monday dismissed speculation and innuendo that state services in the country were behind the leaked material allegedly detailing a teleconference conversation by top IMF executives over the Greek program.
The leaked material was first circulated by Wikileaks.
Yiannis Roubatis merely noted that his bureau operates based strictly on Greek law, which stipulates that a prosecutor’s order is mandatory when dealing with “criminal actions or other threats”. Within this context, “dealing” would refer to the legal use of wiretapping by the specific intelligence gathering service.
Earlier, a dispatch by Berlin’s Tagesspiegel referred to Roubatis as one of “(PM Alexis) Tsipras’ (trusted) associates; who could possibly be the source of the ‘leak’, which damages the otherwise fragile climate of trust between creditors and the Greek government.”
