Kostas Tsalikidis [SEP] manner of death
Kostas Tsalikidis
Kostas Tsalikidis (Κώστας Τσαλικίδης) died on March 9, 2005 at the age of 39 during the Greek telephone tapping case 2004-2005 scandal, in what appeared to be a suicide.
Tsalikidis was Vodafone Greece's Network Planning Manager when it was uncovered that Vodafone Greece was involved in one of the biggest political scandals of recent Greek history - tapping mobile phones of members of the cabinet, the Prime Minister, and hundreds of others.
The authorities and the media strongly feel that Tsalikidis‘s death was associated
with his position in the company.
Background.
Kostas Tsalikidis was born on July 23, 1966. He worked for Vodafone Greece for almost 11 years, beginning as Switching Planning and Technology Manager. From 2001 until his death, he was responsible for all planning activities for the GSM, GPRS and UMTS Vodafone Panafon Core Network (Design, Architecture, Dimensioning, Ordering, Rollout, Interconnect, Optimisation). He was also responsible for all technology issues of the Core Network (GSM, GPRS functionalities implementation and Roadmap)