Overview

• Four defendants — two Israelis and two Greeks, including three former Intellexa executives — went on trial for violating telephone secrecy, a misdemeanor carrying a maximum five-year sentence.
• Greece’s data watchdog found at least 87 people were targeted by Predator, with 27 of them also under surveillance by the national intelligence service.
• Government officials deny any state role and Greece’s top court reported no link to officials in 2024, while no politicians have been charged and critics say the proceedings sidestep accountability.
• Investigations have faced delays and a raid on Intellexa’s Athens offices months after the scandal broke yielded no evidence, and the case has been reduced to a single offence.
• About 10 people, including Nikos Androulakis, have filed civil suits as proceedings expected to last months unfold, and Intellexa and Predator’s developer Cytrox were placed on a U.S. trade blacklist in 2023.