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[PIO] Announcement by the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection, Ms Irini Lozidou-Nikolaidou, regarding final decisions on complaints to the

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Further to my two previous announcements on the above issue, I inform you that the investigation of the complaints submitted to my Office during the 2023 Presidential Elections concerning telephone calls and/or unsolicited promotional sms messages has been completed.

I recall that my Office had received 25 complaints in the first round of elections and 52 complaints in the second round of elections.

Of the 77 aforementioned complaints.
- Six were subject to the administrative sanction of a Warning; - One case was recommended; - 18 complaints were found to be unfounded and/or did not provide the necessary information for their examination, and/or were withdrawn by the complainants; - Four complaints were sent to the Police for further investigation; and - Four complaints concerned investigations/polls.

For the 44 complaints, fines were imposed as follows.

For the 44 complaints, fines were imposed as follows:

- For 37 complaints related to calls and/or text messages from the staff of Mr. Nikos Christodoulides €36000.
- For four complaints relating to text messages from Ms Antigoni Papadopoulou €3000.
- For three complaints relating to SMS messages from Ms Tasoulla Tsokkou €2000.

Finally, 48 of the 77 complaints were also forwarded to the Electoral Service.


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