The left-wing weekly Documento provided a list of people it said were the targets of the wiretapping scandal.

Among the names on the list are former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, a member of the country’s current government, and the ship’s owner Vangelis Marinakis, who owns the Olympiakos and Nottingham Forest football clubs.

Predator surveillance software was used in conjunction with technology from the state intelligence service EYP, according to the newspaper.

Influential members of the conservative New Democracy party, considered a possible rival and challenger to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in a possible future battle for party leadership, were also targeted, according to the newspaper.

– Evidence is lacking, said government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou, who advocated investigating the information Documento provided. This case undermines the government and undermines stability, he said.

Inquiry inquiry

Documento has close ties to the main left-wing opposition party Syriza in Greek politics. The newspaper referred to information from “two people with key roles in surveillance” and wrote that surveillance software was also used to eavesdrop on mobile phones.

On Friday, a committee in the European Union Parliament, which is investigating the wiretapping scandal in Greece and wiretapping cases in other EU countries, called for a more thorough investigation into the case.

In Greece, a committee was formed in the national assembly with the aim of investigating the scandal, but the committee closed after a month. Critics claim that the committee failed to call important witnesses in the case.

Famous in July

The case exploded in July when Nikos Androulakis, a member of the European Parliament and leader of the Greek socialist party Pasok, filed allegations of an alleged attempt to tap his cellphone using Predator software.

A few days later, it became known that Androulakis was under separate surveillance by Greek intelligence, before he became the leader of the Pasok party, the country’s third largest party.

Two Greek journalists and other senior opposition politicians also claimed to have been monitored.

In August, the scandal caused the country’s intelligence chief, as well as a close associate and nephew of the prime minister, to resign.

The government refuses

The Greek government has denied that illegal software was used for surveillance. The government does admit Androulakis is being watched by the intelligence services, but without any reason.

“Surveillance software exists in Greece, like the rest of Europe, but no Greek public authority buys or uses the software,” a spokesman for the Oikonomou government said Saturday.

Prime Minister Mitsotakis has pledged to ban the illegal use of surveillance. But critics have pointed out that one of his first acts when he became prime minister in 2019 was to bring the National Intelligence Service under his office.