Greek intelligence chief resigns over phone spying scandal

Panagiotis Kontolio, the director of Greece's national intelligence service, resigned Friday, amid a phone spying scandal.

The scandal forced Gregoris Demetriadis, the head of the secretariat of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, to resign.

There is a kinship between Demetriadis and the prime minister.

The resignations follow what he said last week by Nikos Androlakis, head of the Greek Socialist Movement Party, that an attempt had been made to hack his mobile phone electronically using malware.

Androlakis' lawyers have filed an accusation, according to unnamed sources.

Alexis Tsipras, head of the largest opposition Syriza party, said today that the resignation of the head of the prime minister's secretariat amounted to an "admission of guilt", and warned on state television of the consequences.

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