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EYP chief Panagiotis Kontoleon had submitted his resignation
"following mistaken actions found during lawful wiretapping
procedures," the prime minister's office said in a statement.
Kontoleon was not immediately reachable for comment.
Earlier this week, two lawmakers who spoke to Reuters on
condition of anonymity said that Kontoleon had admitted during a
parliamentary committee on July 29 that his service had spied on
Thanasis Koukakis, a financial journalist who works for CNN
Greece.
That closed-door hearing was called after the leader of the
socialist opposition PASOK party lodged a complaint with top
court prosecutors over an attempted bugging of his mobile phone
with surveillance software.
In a separate statement on Friday, the prime minister's office
said a top aide to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, his
secretary-general Grigoris Dimitriadis, had also resigned,
without giving further details. EYP reports to the prime
minister's office.
The government says Greek authorities do not use the spyware
allegedly deployed in the hacking of Koukakis and do not do
business with companies selling it.
In April, a Greek prosecutor began an investigation into an
allegation by Koukakis that his smartphone had been infected by
surveillance software.
(Reporting by George Georgiopoulos and Karolina Tagaris, Editing
by Ros Russell)
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