A prosecutor in Athens has recommended a guilty verdict for a ruling New Democracy party lawmaker and the former secretary-general of Interior Ministry over the leak of emails belonging to diaspora Greeks, a scandal known as “email gate.”
The scandal concerns the unlawful use of personal data from the Interior Ministry’s special electoral register of Greeks living abroad. Former MEP Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou was accused of using this data for promotional purposes without proper authorization while canvassing for votes ahead of the June 2024 European parliamentary elections.
Prosecutor Emilia Sophia Meri told the Athens Three-Member Misdemeanor Court that Asimakopoulou and former Interior Ministry Secretary General Michalis Stavrianoudakis should be found guilty of breach of civil service secrets and privacy laws because “they knew very well what they were doing.”
At the same time, she requested the acquittal of the then New Democracy party official for diaspora, Nikos Theodoropoulos, as well as Menios Koromilas, who was then serving as the organizational secretary of Local Government and Crisis Management of the party, for violation of official secrecy, but proposed their guilt for breaking privacy laws.
