Vodafone fined 76m Euro over Greek phone tapping affair
Vodafone was last night ordered to pay an unprecedented 76m Euro in fines for its role in an espionage scandal that saw the mobile phones of Greece's political, business and military elite being tapped in the run-up to and after the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
The huge fine, announced after more than four months of investigation by Greece's independent telecoms authority, ADAE, reflected Vodafone's involvement in the biggest spying scandal to strike Greece since the second world war. Investigators have not discovered who was behind the phone taps, but Vodafone was blamed for failing to protect its network.
