Asimakopoulou

A watchdog authority said that although New Democracy (ND) party is not directly involved in the leaking of email addresses, a fine was imposed because it failed to safeguard personal data protection

Outgoing MEP Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou is facing 75 lawsuits by citizens and the interior ministry more than 200 lawsuits since the email gate scandal broke

An interior ministry audit came in the wake of the mass sending of unsolicited emails by MEP Anna Michelle Asimakopoulou's office to expatriate Greek citizens

The development in the "Email-gate" scandal comes several weeks after former New Democracy MEP candidate Anna-Michelle Asimokopoulou was forced to drop out of the running for the 10th EP elections and two ND officials resigned

ND party's secretary for Diaspora affairs, Nikos Theodoropoulos, was revealed as the person who provided the Greek MEP's office with the confidential email list

According to sources, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis made the decision not to include the incumbent on ND's candidate list for the upcoming European elections due to the incident