Tal Dilian convicted in Greece over Predator spyware scandal

Tal Dilian, the Israeli national who in 2021 was cleared of all charges relating to the case of the ‘spy van’ in Larnaca, is among four people found guilty by a court in Greece in relation to illegal surveillance.

The Israeli entrepreneur and three others were handed lengthy jail sentences by a Greek court. In a scandal that shook Greece in 2022, surveillance software called Predator was used to target 87 people – among them government ministers, senior military officials and journalists.