The European Parliament is studying the possibility of sending a mission to Spain to analyze the cases of political espionage, various parliamentary sources confirmed to EFE on Tuesday.
The option was raised during the meeting of coordinators of the commission of inquiry on the Pegasus program, which held its second session today, after its inaugural session on April 19.
Instead, it was announced today that the European Parliament will send parliamentary missions to Israel -country from which the company NSO, owner of Pegasus, comes from- and to Hungary and Poland, whose governments have admitted the purchase of the espionage program and with whom Brussels has several open files for violating the rule of law.
During Tuesday’s meeting, The possibility of sending another mission to USA.
The cases of political espionage in Spain were settled today with the decision of the Government of dismiss the director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI), Paz Esteban, who will be replaced by the Secretary of State for Defense, Esperanza Casteleiro.
His dismissal comes after Esteban recognized last week in the secrecy commission of the Congress of Deputies that the CNI ordered to spy in 2019 with judicial authorization on the Catalan president, Pere Aragonès, when he was still vice president of the Generalitat.
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The former director of the CNI also stated that she had been spied on in total 18 politicians.
His appearance before Congress came after the Canadian Institute Citizens Lab published that 63 pro-independence politicians and people around them were spied on.