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Spain closes Pegasus spyware probe again, saying Israel has not responded

Summary by Al-Monitor
MADRID, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Spain's High Court on Thursday closed its investigation into the use of Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group's "Pegasus" software to spy on Spanish politicians, citing a lack of cooperation from Israeli authorities.The investigation was launched after the Spanish government disclosed in 2022 that NSO's spyware had been used to spy on members of the Spanish cabinet, sparking a political crisis that led to the resig…

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The Spanish justice has come across a huge wall: Israel. Judge José Luis Calama, an instructor at the National High Court, denounces that the Jewish State has “frustrated” the open investigation into the spying of several members of the Government of Pedro Sánchez with Pegasus software, commercialized and developed by one of its companies. Israel has ignored five requests for cooperation from the magistrate, who harshly criticizes the “failure” …

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Judge José Luis Calama has once again agreed to the free dismissal of the Pegasus case. The instructor of the National High Court explains that the lack of collaboration of the Israeli authorities makes it impossible to attribute "some concrete person" the infection of Pedro Sánchez's phones and several of his ministers through Pegasus software. The mobile phones of Pedro Sánchez and the ministers Margarita Robles, Fernando Grande-Marlaska and L…

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The judge of the National High Court José Luis Calama has agreed for the second time the file of the case opened for espionage to the Government with the program Pegasus. The reason is the...

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The judge of the National High Court (AN) José Luis Calama has filed for the second time the case in which...

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Judge Calama highlights the "investigating power" that "impede him to investigate the authorship" of the eventsThe meeting of cyber spies in Barcelona worries NGOs: "Encourage more companies of 'spyware' to come to Europe" The judge of the National High Court José Luis Calama has closed for the second time the case in which he investigated the spying of the president of the government, Pedro Sanchez, and several of his ministers with the Pegasus…

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Al-Monitor broke the news in Washington, United States on Thursday, January 22, 2026.
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