Allegation that "Intellexa" company sold its spyware program to Greek state authorities - Last Minute

It was claimed that former Israeli army member Tal Jonathan Dilian, the founder of the "Intellexa" company, one of the suspects of the wiretapping scandal that emerged in Greece in 2022, announced that he sold the spy program that was the subject of the scandal directly to the Greek state authorities.

In the case involving the monitoring of the mobile phones of many people in Greece with the spyware program called "Predator", Zaharias Kesses, the lawyer of the victims, made a statement about the process from the account of the US-based company X on the social media platform.

Kesses stated that he had access to the statement made in Israeli courts by Dilian, a former member of the Israeli army and the founder of the "Intellexa" company, who was tried in the case and sentenced to prison.

Accordingly, in his statement to the Israeli court, Dilian argued that he sold the spy program to the Greek state authorities and that the sale was legal, and that he had no further involvement in the illegal use of the program.

Kesses stated that they would submit this statement made to the Israeli courts to the Greek Court of Appeals and requested that 5 senior managers from Dilian or Intellexa be brought to Greece to testify.

The wiretapping scandal in Greece came to the fore in 2022 after the spyware program "Predator" was detected on the mobile phone of Greek journalist Thanasis Kukakis.

It was claimed that the phones of many politicians, bureaucrats, journalists and business people, including former Prime Minister Andonis Samaras, then Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias and then Chief of General Staff Konstandinos Floros, were "taped".

Within the scope of the wiretapping scandal, 4 people, including a former Israeli army member, were sentenced to prison in February.

The court found all four guilty of unlawfully accessing private conversations and violating privacy and data protection laws.

The 4 people on trial were sentenced to 126 years and 8 months in prison, but it was stated that the portion to be executed would be 8 years.

Dilian's business partner Sara Aleksandra Fayssal Hamou, Felix Bitzios, one of the partners and managers of Intellexa, and Yannis Lavranos, the owner of the Greek company Krikel, which bought the program called Predator, were also punished.