Predator ruling reopens scandal that government hoped had been buried

PoliticsGreek Politics Tags: Justice, Mitsotakis, New Democracy, Parliament, PASOK-KINAL, SYRIZA, Tsipras

One of the scandals that has haunted Greece’s centre-right administration over the last few years – the Predator surveillance case – is back in the spotlight after a lower court issued convictions in Thursday, which could lead to prosecutors reopening their investigation into potential felonies but has already reignited the political tussle over the affair and placed Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis under closer scrutiny.

A misdemeanour court has found Tal Dilian the founder of Intellexa – a consortium that developed and traded the Predator spyware – as well as three associates guilty of illegally accessing personal data through the phonetapping operation in 2020–21, iss...

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