A trial linked to the illegal wiretapping of politicians and journalists using the spy software Predator opens on Wednesday in Greece, three years after a scandal that rocked the country.

Four people, two Israelis and two Greeks, are being tried at the Athens Criminal Court for the “violation of telephone communication secrecy” and face a maximum five-year prison sentence.

Their trial, initially scheduled for March, was postponed by six months.

Three of the defendants are former executives of the Greek company Intellexa, which marketed the Predator spyware in Greece.

Predator allows hackers to access messages, photos and even remotely activate the microphone or camera of the infected device.

In 2023, Intellexa was added to a list of companies banned in the United States as a threat to

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