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The Council of State, Greece's supreme administrative court, has rejected two appeals filed by Intellexa, a company selling Predator tracking software, against the Personal Data Protection Authority over a hefty fine imposed for the company's failure to cooperate with an audit. 

The United States announced new sanctions Monday against a commercial spyware company headed by a former Israeli military officer whose program allowed easy access to almost any information stored on a smartphone.

The US has imposed sanctions on five individuals and one entity involved in the Intellexa Consortium, which sold the illegal Predator spyware in Greece, found in dozens of phones, including those belonging politicians, journalists and businesspeople.

The sanctioned individuals include key figures involved in Greece's wiretapping scandal, which became known in 2022.

Did the months-long inquiry into the wiretapping affair by the Supreme Court's Deputy Prosecutor, Achilles Zisis, leave any gaps? 

The former head of Greece's EYP intelligence service has denied allegations that the state agency used illegal phone malware in 2019-2022 to spy on targets, court documents show.

Greece became mired in scandal in 2022 following allegations by an opposition party leader and a journalist that they had been under state surveillance via phone malware.

One of the key figures in Greece's spiraling wiretapping case still owns a 35% stake of Intellexa, which sells Predator spyware in Greece, despite attempts to show that he had sold the stake, a report revealed on Wednesday.

The Treasury Department announced Tuesday it has sanctioned two people and a Greece-based commercial spyware company headed by a former Israeli military officer that developed, operated and distributed technology used to target U.S. government officials, journalists and policy experts.