Intellexa, the main shareholder Bitzios and the “nails”

New elements show that one of the central figures in the wiretapping scandal, Mr Felix Bitzios, still owns 35% of Greece’s Intellexa, despite attempts to appear to have sold his stake. Which, very practically, means that we may soon have new developments regarding US sanctions on the Greeks involved with the companies that trafficked the Predator.

Specifically, therefore, according to yesterday’s publications of the inside story and the “Citizen” of Cyprus, Mr Bitziosafter revealing his surveillance Nikos Androulakis in August 2022, he tried with backdated documents filed with the Department of the Registrar of Companies of Cyprus to hide that he was the real shareholder and director of the company, presenting his Irish company as the main shareholder Tal Dilian and as director a close associate of the Israeli ex-spy named Andrea Gabaci.

And it does not end there: as revealed on the front page of “Citizen”, on March 7, 2024, two days after the imposition of draconian US sanctions, there was also a new early filing of documents with the Department of the Comptroller of Companies of Cyprus for changes of officials in his company Bijou which owns 35% of Intellexa. Responding in this regard, Gabachimanager of his companies Dillianshows as responsible for the pre-dated entries him Biggio. In other words, it seems that the shareholders of Intellexa… give each other.

In any case, the revelation of the false – as it always seems – information to the authorities puts the Greek shareholders and partners who were behind the trafficking, trading and export of Predator. These elements have been brought to the attention of the authorities in Nicosia and Athens. I would say, however, that we also look towards Washington in the coming days. Because, I remind you, in Cyprus (where the above happened) an FBI unit has also been officially installed to ensure the implementation of American sanctions…

I had forewarned you from the beginning that the story of the e-mail leak in the Anna-Michel Asimakopoulou it will not end easily or quickly. So I am informed that the number of plaintiffs is increasing daily and I will convey to you verbatim what a legal source told me: “I will not be surprised if we exceed 100” expatriates who will turn against the Greek State for the leakage of their personal data by the interior ministry. At the same time, my sources tell me that an echelon of the Authority for the Protection of Personal Data will visit the offices of New Democracy in Piraeus next week, as part of the investigation into the “course” of the leakage of the disputed information from the ministry through the former secretary Apodimons Nikos Theodoropoulos. While the aim of the investigation is also whether these lists only reached her office Asimakopoulou or to others who managed, perhaps, not to use them…

I note, however, that the scope of the criminal justice investigation is also revealing. As you will read in our report on the following pages, the Prosecutor’s investigation has been extended in time to the current period, i.e. to the period of updating the data of foreign voters in 2023 in view of the European elections, but also to all employees of the Ministry of the Interior who participate in this specific process. Calling into question the government’s multiple assurances that the matter begins and ends in May 2023. The irony is that the relevant Directorate of Elections of the ministry is under this scrutiny, while at the same time preparing the upcoming European elections. These days they even start the relevant meetings with the company that brings them to fruition, Singular Logic.

THE Edi Rama he is known for various things – beyond the obvious. As e.g. his artistic streak or his brief attempt at a professional basketball career. Not for his strong democratic and institutional sensibilities anyway. Which we all admired in the well-known video in which she appears to lightly push, touching her cheek derogatorily, a female journalist, Ambrosia Metabecause he was bothered by a question she asked about the investments of his son-in-law and partner Trump, Jared Kushner, on the Albanian island of Sazan. The video made the rounds on social media of course and provoked the reactions of Albanian and international journalistic associations. But he, undaunted as usual, went out on a limb yesterday, citing misinformation as it was, he says, a “totally innocent gesture, like a friendly tap on the shoulder”. Of course, the journalist was not his friend. But, okay, details…