The German Foreign Intelligence Service (BND) has for several years been spying on the International Criminal Police Organization, known as Interpol, and its offices in dozens of countries, including Greece, Austria and the United States, the German magazine Der Spiegel.
The magazine relies on documents she has seen and according to which BND has added Interpol's e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and fax numbers to her watch list.
In addition, the German intelligence agency was monitoring Europol, the European Police Service - a law enforcement agency in the EU - based in The Hague, the magazine said.
So far there are no comments from BND, Interpol or Europol.
Der Spiegel wrote in February that BND was watching the telephones, faxes and emails of many news agencies including the New York Times and Reuters.
BND's activities were found in the German Parliament's investigation microscope on accusations that the US National Security Service (NSA) was largely monitoring outside of US territory, including monitoring of Merkel's cell phone.
Konstantin von Noget, a member of the Greens and the parliamentary committee that conducted the investigation, described the latest report on BND's follow-ups "scandalous and incomprehensible."
"We now know that parliaments, various companies and even journalists and publishers were targets as well as allied countries," he said in a statement.
According to von Noget, the latest information shows how ineffective the parliamentary controls have been to date, despite the new legislation aimed at reforming the BND.
"It poses a threat to our rule of law."
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