The case had been archived following a report by former deputy Supreme Court prosecutor Achilleas Zisis.

Specifically, in his order of 27 April 2026, issued in relation to the wiretapping case submitted to him by the prosecutor of the Athens Court of First Instance after the relevant ruling by the Athens Single-Member Misdemeanour Court, and for any actions within his competence under Article 43(6) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the Supreme Court prosecutor ruled that there was no basis for retrieving the case from the archive of the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office and re-examining it.

In the view of the Supreme Court prosecutor, the evidence cited by the Athens Single-Member Misdemeanour Court does not constitute new evidence under Article 43(6) of the Code of Criminal Procedure capable of justifying the withdrawal of the case file from the archive. As a result, the conclusions of the report by deputy Supreme Court prosecutor Achilleas Zisis are not overturned.

In a landmark ruling, the Single-Member Criminal Court found four individuals, Tal Dilian, Sarah Hamou, Felix Bitzio and Yiannis Lavranos, guilty over the scandal involving the operation of the illegal Predator spyware in Greece. They were convicted of interference with a personal data filing system, committed and attempted; violation of the confidentiality of telephone communication and oral conversation, committed and attempted; and illegal access to an information system or data, committed and attempted.

They were sentenced to 126 years and eight months in prison, with eight years to be served. The court decided to grant suspensive effect to the defendants’ appeal.

At the same time, the court forwarded the case file to the prosecutor’s office in order to investigate whether these acts constitute the crime of espionage, while an investigation was ordered into seven more executives of the companies involved.

As ERT reported, in the 1,930 pages of his clearly written decision, the president of the court, Nikos Askianakis, set out in detail not only the reasoning behind the sentencing of the two Greeks and the two foreign businesspeople to long prison terms, but also his order for a new round of investigations into the Predator case for the crime of espionage.

Citing evidence that emerged during the trial of the four defendants, he referred in detail to the way the spyware operates, the possibility of remote access to log files and the extent of the data that can be extracted. He linked these elements to the positions held by the recipients of the infected messages, ‘which handle crucial portfolios with state secrets and classified information’.

A few days after the ruling, Intellexa founder Tal Dilian stated, among other things, that ‘we operate strictly in accordance with European and international export regulations, providing technology only to governments and law enforcement agencies. We have never conducted surveillance activities. Nor do we have operational access after the delivery of the systems.’

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