Μake us preferred on Google“The wiretapping case will remain an open wound for the rule of law and democracy itself in Greece, as long as the case file stays shelved and multiple questions remain unanswered.” As the nation learned yesterday, Supreme Court Prosecutor Evangelos Bakelas, through relevant rulings, had determined for technical legal reasons that there are no grounds at present to retrieve the wiretapping case file from the archives. On the contrary, as they explained, should new facts emerge which are then brought to the attention of the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office, the case can be retrieved and a new round of investigations begun. Addressing the request made by Antonis Samaras in which the former Prime Minister asked for “full transparency regarding the illegal wiretapping of his telephone,” the Supreme Court Prosecutor ruled that no new evidence had been submitted beyond what had already been investigated, both by Deputy Supreme Court Prosecutor A. Zisis (now retired) and former Supreme Court Prosecutor Konstantinos Tzavellas. Consequently, any witness testimony obtained from them at this stage would subsequently be struck from the case file and disregarded at any later procedural stage.