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Moncloa already is finalizing the document and works to provide the information after the regular Cabinet meeting
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Sánchez transfers to his executive that he will only make decisions “justified“, which could result in the fall of the head of the CNI, never of Robles
The investigation into possible espionage with Pegasus on members of the Government, beyond the president, Pedro Sánchez, and the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, is nearing its end. The Moncloa”It is ending“the report with the results of the expert analysis made by the National Cryptologic Center (CCN), a body dependent on the National Intelligence Center (CNI), to the mobile phones of the ministers.
In this way, the Executive is working to make this document public after the meeting of the Council of Ministers on Tuesday, May 10, as advanced the SER and confirmed to this newspaper top-level government sources. “If possibleTherefore, if it arrives on time, they sign the president’s team, the conclusions of the CCN investigations will be announced, although it is not yet clear in what format they will be offered and what information will be given on each case. report has been delayed because there were ministers who handed over their terminal to the CCN last Friday.The technicians of this body need the device physically to analyze if it was infected with the Israeli-made Pegasus program.
On May 2, a public holiday in Madrid, the Moncloa convened an emergency press conference in which the head of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, and the spokeswoman, Isabel Rodríguez, appeared to report that Sánchez and Robles’ cell phones had been spied on between May and June 2021, and in those attacks —”external“e”illicit“— were extracted 2.6 gigabytes and 130 megabytes of data, in the case of the president, and 9 megabytes, in the case of the minister. The Executive has not reported more intrusions certified by the CCN, although according to ‘El País’ Attacks had also been detected on the terminal of the head of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska.
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The foreseeable thing is that the Government transfers all the new cases to the National High Court. It is what he did when he became aware of the espionage on Sánchez and Robles. In fact, the investigation was carried out by the head of the Central Court of Instruction number 4, the magistrate Jose Luis Calama, who on May 5 declared it secret. The objective, said the judge, is “to prevent a situation that could seriously compromise the result” of the investigations, and only by declaring them secret “will it be possible to prevent knowledge of the results of the proceedings” from giving rise to “interference or manipulation aimed at hindering the investigation and frustrating its objectives”. However, the result of the same may be known later to avoid “any reduction of the right of defense”. Calama also offered Sánchez and Robles the possibility of appearing in person in the procedure in quality of injured.
the president suffered two intrusions in 2021on May 19 and 31 —the dates, in the middle of the migratory wave, underpin that Morocco could be the author of the espionage order—, and the Minister of Defense, in June, although today none of the analyzed motives ” presents indicators of ongoing Pegasus infection.”