• Courts A court in Barcelona opens the first judicial investigation against the Pegasus company for espionage

  • Courts A court in Barcelona opens the first judicial investigation against the Pegasus company for espionage

The judge of the National High Court investigating the

'Pegasus case'

, José Luis Calama, has agreed to the declaration as witnesses of both the Minister of the Interior,

Fernando Grande-Marlaska

, and the Minister of Defence,

Margarita Robles

.

In an informative note, it is also reported that the judge agrees to address a request to the Council of Ministers in order to proceed to

declassify

the matters, acts, documents, information, data and objects, declared secret or reserved and that could be affected by these testimonials.

This case investigates the

infection of the mobile phones of these two ministers

now cited as witnesses, of the Prime Minister himself, Pedro Sánchez, and of the attempt to infect the terminal of the head of Agriculture, Luis Planas, with the Pegasus computer tool.

The National Court points out in the statement that Calama agrees to these proceedings in view of the content of the testimonial statements of the former director of the CNI Paz Esteban, of the official of this body number 7613 - who signed the preliminary reports attached to the complaints of the Advocacy of the State- and the Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños.

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  • National audience

  • Margaret Oaks

  • CNI

  • Pedro Sanchez

  • Minister council

  • Fernando Grande-Marlaska

  • Justice