Former Mexican President Investigated over Allegedly Taking Bribes From Spyware Industry

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Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is back in focus: Claudia Sheinbaum’s government has ordered, through the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic, to investigate a complaint by the Israeli press about the alleged acceptance of bribes to facilitate the entry into Mexico of Pegasus spy software, with which, during its administration (2012-2018), journalists, activists and opponents were spied. Peña Nieto transited the entire governme…

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Several opinion leaders have questioned the real intentions of Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero and, consequently, of President Claudia Sheinbaum, that the new corruption investigation against former President Enrique Peña Nieto seek justice as the ultimate end.Julio Hernández said that the allegations for alleged crimes made to him in the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador were left only for the oratory record, and Roy Campos sugg…

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The name Pegasus resonates as a dark echo in Mexico’s recent history, linked directly to the six-year period of former PRI president Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018). What was initially presented as a high-tech security tool to combat organized crime, quickly became the epicenter of a spy scandal and here we tell you the chronology. What is Pegasus and how does it work? To understand the magnitude of the scandal, it is crucial to understand what P…

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Pegasus is not a problem of a few officials and private individuals who did wrong, but is the face of a state that spies widely without consequences. Software changes hands —PAN, PRI, Morena — but the mechanism remains intact.The post Pegasus: ten years of corruption and espionage with impunity first appeared on SinEmbargo MX.Read the full text in sinembargo.mx

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Maestro Alfonso Zárate, the uses of power, commented that « Peña Nieto was not touched with AMLO, or played it in a very careful way; AMLO reached the extreme...