Greece’s intelligence chief resigns amid phone spying claims

Athens, Greece ---Greece's intelligence chief has resigned, the government said on Friday amid a scandal over alleged spying of an opposition politician. Panagiotis Kontoleon "has presented his resignation... which was accepted," the office of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a statement. Kontoleon, who was appointed head of Greece's intelligence service in 2019 after Mitsotakis's conservative party won power that year, resigned hours after the secretary general of prime minister's office, Grigoris Dimitriadis, also quit. The announcements came a week after the leader of the country's Socialist opposition party filed a complaint with the supreme court over "attempt...

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