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[01] New evidence concerning Vodafone exec's death

[01] New evidence concerning Vodafone exec's death

Tsalikidis was found hanged last year shortly after the discovery of a security breach in the mobile phone provider's systems that had allowed unknown parties to tap the mobile phones of top-level government members, including the prime minister, senior state officials and the leadership of the police and armed forces, among others. An initial police investigation had attributed the death to suicide but had not linked it to the phone-tapping affair that was just recently made public.

According to the lawyer acting on behalf of Tsalikidis' family Themistokles Sofos, the new evidence showed that the last person to speak with Tsalikidis before he was found dead on March 9, 2005 was not his fiancee Sara Galanopoulou, as previously believed.

Analysis of the dead man's mobile phone software showed that he also spoke with a person who has not yet been identified on the phone at 11:15 on the night of March 8, 2005 and that he had previously received a call that probably came from a Vodafone telephone. After the conversation at 11:15, there were two more calls to Tsalikidis' phone that he did not answer.

Sofos also gave public prosecutor Ioannis Diotis a second notebook belonging to Tsalikidis, in which he kept notes on technical issues between April 2004 and January 24, 2005.

Finally, he included an official request sent by Tsalikidis' family to the police last June, asking them to investigate the dead man's e-mail account and expressing doubts regarding the circumstances of his death.

In addition, Sofos included the phonebook listings from Tsalikidis' mobile and the entire contents of an e-mail sent to Vodafone by the deceased a few hours before his death.

The lawyer said the e-mail had been addressed to senior Vodafone executives and concerned issues that Tsalikidis' considered to be of the greatest importance and was related to work for improving Vodafone's network. In the e-mail, Tsalikidis had estimated that he would complete the actions that needed to be done from July until September 2005, at the latest.

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