https://x.com/SuppressedNws1/status/2014900873332195390Spain’s court probe into the hacking of the prime minister’s phone with Pegasus spyware has collapsed after Government of Israel refused to cooperate.
By blocking judicial assistance, Israel effectively shielded NSO Group, whose Pegasus spyware has been used to target politicians, journalists, and activists worldwide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/23/spanish-court-drops-pegasus-spyware-case-again-israel-spain-nsohttps://archive.is/1TB7GSpain’s highest criminal court has again shelved its investigation into the use of Israeli-made Pegasus software to target the mobile phones of senior Spanish ministers, including the prime minister, citing a chronic lack of cooperation from the Israeli authorities that has violated “the principle of good faith” between countries.
The investigation began in May 2022 after the Spanish government revealed that the phones of the prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, and the defence minister, Margarita Robles, had been infected the previous year with the spyware, which, according to its manufacturers, NSO Group, is available only to state agencies. It was later established that the phones of the interior minister and the agriculture minister had also been targeted.
The revelations led to the dismissal of Spain’s spy chief, Paz Esteban, and the admission that there had been “shortcomings” within the country’s national intelligence centre (CNI).
In a decision announced on Thursday, Judge José Luis Calama at the Audiencia Nacional in Madrid said the investigation into the use of Pegasus was being dropped for the second time because of a continuing lack of cooperation from Israel.
He said the court had been obliged to shelve the case because the Israeli authorities’ failure to respond to requests for information – in the form of letters rogatory – had impeded “the investigation into the attribution of the authorship of the investigated facts to any specific person”.