Greek authorities announced they arrested two men at an airport in northern Greece who are wanted in neighboring FYROM on charges related to an illegal wiretapping scandal.
Police said Thursday the two men were arrested overnight at Thessaloniki airport with forged Bulgarian travel documents. Warrants had been issued for both by FYROM on charges of setting up a criminal organization and for technology-related crimes.
A Greek court official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as the information was not being publicly released, said the technology charges were related to a two-year wiretapping scandal that shook the Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia’s political scene.
The scandal broke in 2015 when it emerged that the phone conversations of about 20,000 people had been illegally recorded. The political crisis triggered early elections last year.
Source: AP
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