First it was for the espionage to Expressive Pere Aragonès. Then for the ERC parliamentarians Josep Maria Jové and Diana Riba. And this Friday, the third imputation of the former director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) Paz Esteban for infiltration with the Pegasus program on the telephone of a former Republican Director, the exeurodiputee Jordi Solé.
In a car, to which Eldiario.es has had access, the Barcelona hearing attends the appeal of Andreu Van den Eynde, lawyer of Solé, and forces the instrumental judge, who had refused to impute Esteban, to take a statement as a statement as investigated to the former chief of the spies without “delay.”
His appearance as investigated, the judges delve, should serve so that Esteban can “provide data, if he considers it pertinent” to clarify the doubt that he maintains court about whether the espionage to the exeurodipute .
The third imputation of Esteban confirms that the judicial investigations distributed by half a dozen courts of Barcelona (it was rejected to assume all the complaints in a single macrocause) have begun to demolish the wall that the CNI and the government raised before the requests of clarification of espionage To the independentists.
Although the Israeli company NSO Group only sells pegasus to the states, the government has refused to answer judicial requests on the cost of the Espía program. He has only facilitated the three judicial cars (with studs in several paragraphs) for which the Supreme Court authorized espionage to the expressor of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès.
Only half a year ago, the Government denied the judge to have used any software against Solé, although the hearing ensures no record in writing of this extreme. In any case, Esteban did not include the name of Solé in the 18 independentistas who admitted to having spied on, always with a judicial endorse Following the espionage.
All this despite the fact that the server and the mobile infection method of the former Republican Director (a malicious SMS that served for Pegasus entered the device) coincided with the employee in the infiltration to Aragonès, whose espionage did admit the CNI.
In sum, the espionage computer trail coincides with both the independentistas whose infiltration was carried out with a judicial endorse Telephone with the Pegasus program.
It is in this coincidence on the computer server and the espionage method where section 7 of the Barcelona Court is supported to order the statement as Esteban’s investigation. The Court indicates that the linkage between the espionage made on the expressor Aragonès, does admitted by the CNI, and the infringed on Solé, denied by the center, seems “unquestionable”.
The “reliable data” that lead to the court to agree on Esteban’s imputation are the remission of a malicious SMS both in the cases of Aragonès and Solé as well as the “same computer infrastructure” as the private and the Mossos d’Esquadra. They have identified as the one used to store the data obtained by the Pegasus program.
The judges admit that the “uncertainty” weighs whether Solé’s espionage was carried out with the guarantee of the supreme or not, but consider precisely that Esteban can shed light on this extreme in his statement as investigated.
The technical coincidences of espionage also led to another section of the audience of Barcelona to impute, a few days ago, Esteban for the second time, this time for the espionage suffered by the deputy in the parliament Josep Maria Jové and the Eurodiputada Republicana Diana Riba . This appearance must still be pointed out. In his first statement as investigated, Esteban shielded himself in the secret he wrapped to the CNI not to answer many of the questions asked.
#director #CNI #Paz #Esteban #charged #time #espionage #ERC #leaders #Pegasus
