Witness claims former president Peña Nieto ordered Pegasus to spy on Mexican tycoons

Mexican businessmen like the tycoon Carlos Slim It is Larrea Germantwo of the richest men in the country, and a dozen journalists were spied on during the Government of Enrique Peña grandson (2012-2018) through the Pegasus Software, as revealed by a protected witness in the trial against the operator of this tool.

According to information from the portal Aristegui NewsThis was revealed during the trial against Juan Carlos ‘N’company employee KBH Applied Technologies Groupa network of shell companies that was used to trade in Mexico the program owned by the Israeli company NSO Group.

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According to the witness identified as ‘Zeus‘, the head of the company, the Israeli Uri Emmanuel Ansbacherreceived instructions over the phone from then-president Peña Nieto to spy on specific people.

In July 2021, an international media investigation revealed that several countries had intervened 50,000 phones With the program Pegasusof which 15,000 cases occurred in Mexico during the Peña Nieto’s governmentthe highest number.

The witness stated that in September 2015 he received a USB through the driver of the Ansbachsince it should send some files contained in it, however, when opening “by accident“One of them found around 1,500 records of names of journalists and politicians, targets of espionage.

Among the names, he revealed, were those of Larrea, executive director of Mexico GroupSlim president of Carso Group and the richest man in Mexico, and journalists like Carlos Loret de Mola, Jenaro Villamilcurrent president of Public Broadcasting System of the Mexican State (SPR), Carmen Aristegui.

According to the statements of ‘Zeus‘, Juan Carlos ‘N’ He also received orders from the former Secretary of the Interior, Miguel Osório Chongand the former head of the National Research and Security Center (Cisen), Eugênio Imaz GispertThey also gave instructions to the owner of the KBH define the objectives of the communication intervention.

Juan Carlos ‘N’ served as director of Technology at VME Projetos e Designsone of the companies that sold the spyware, its use licenses and its updates for the extinct National Intelligence and Security Center (Cisen); to the Secretariat of National defense (Sedena) and the former Attorney General’s Office, today Prosecutor’s office.

Espionage cases have been a scandal in Mexico, because in addition to those revealed during the Peña Nieto government, the group Macaw Leaks published in October last year documents that he hacked from Secretary of National Defense (Sedena).

In them it was revealed that the Army I had spied, already with the president López Obrador in power, to journalists and activists.

Added to this is the failure of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), which in April this year prohibited the Army from intercepting citizens’ communications without authorization judicial authorization.

Source: Elcomercio

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