Corruption prosecutor Dimitris Foukas issued an arrest warrant against a former employee at the US embassy in Athens, over a phone-tapping conspiracy case targeting former Greek prime minister Costas Karamanlis and many other government officials during the 2004’s. The 65-year-old US embassy employee faces charges of espionage as according to available evidence, he played the leading role in Greece’s major wiretapping scandal.
The American citizen, whose identity is expected to be released in the coming days, is alleged to have been a member of the CIA’s team in Athens in the mid-1990s and according to sources, the suspect had left Greece shortly after the scandal broke out in the spring of 2005 and returned that summer, as a diplomat.