ΑΔΑΕ: "Concealment" ΕΥΠ and the anti-terrorist service in thousands of waivers of secrecy

Office of Communications Privacy Protection (ΑΔΑΕ) was kept in the dark for a long time because the National Intelligence Service (ΕΥΠ), reporting to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis,

and the Directorate for Combating Special Violent Crimes (ΔΑΕΕΒ), known as the Anti-Terrorism Directorate, although legally obliged, for an unreasonably long time didn’t send a total of 6,705 prosecutorial decisions related with the abolition of secrecy of communications for reasons of national security, reports the publication in.gr

In practice, because of this delay, ΕΥΠ and the counterterrorism service hid thousands of declassified documents from the constitutionally guaranteed body, making any control impossible since ΕΥΠ was unaware of their existence.

In 2022, 6,705 prosecutorial orders for 2021 were sent.

The new revelation is reported by the website insidestory.gr, citing the ADAE activity report for 2022, which was published late Wednesday evening (31/01). According to the report, ΑΔΑΕ in 2022, with a great delay, sent an additional 717 prosecutorial provisions that related to 2021 and were not transmitted earlier. ΔΑΕΕΒ, in turn, did not send 5988 prosecutorial orders to ΑΔΑΕ for 2021, and also did not do this in 2022. Their number increased from 15,475 to 22,180.

The information site adds the number of “forgotten” declassification provisions for national security reasons to the currently known number for 2021, based on the previous ΑΔΑΕ activity report, it has skyrocketed from 15,475 to 22,180. The corresponding number in 2020 was 13,751 prosecution. That’s an increase of 62% in one year.

The President of the Office for the Protection of Personal Data in the Communications Industry (ΑΔΑΕ), Christos Rammos, in the preface to the report on his activities, mentions the reaction of those “who, for many and varied reasons, did not want the investigations and checks of ΑΔΑΕ to continue and, in any case, did not want the results of these checks to be known.”

“Serious anti-regime intervention,” says Chr. Rammos. A response which, he said, “in some cases developed into serious anti-regulatory interventions, whereby the very independence of management was called into question, with threatening insinuations that if the management did not check what was required under these interventions, against its members and employees will be prosecuted, even for extremely serious criminal offences.”

Fortunately, Mr. Rammos notes, “the department was able to ignore these reactions and stand on its own two feet.” By acting decisively and as best it could in this extremely negative climate, it fulfilled its constitutional duty, which is nothing less than to protect “absolute” right to confidentiality of communications, so sensitive under the Constitution.”

Report on the activities of ΕΥΠ

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