NSO CEO Denies Pegasus Targeted World Leaders, Contradicting Investigation Claims
Shalev Hulio, CEO of the Israeli company NSO, assures that the numbers of King Mohammed VI, President Emmanuel Macron and the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) have never been targeted using the Pegasus spyware. Allegations that call into question the results of the investigation conducted by the international consortium created by Forbidden Stories.
"We can confirm that at least three names in your investigation: Emmanuel Macron, King Mohammed VI and [The WHO DG] Tedros Ghebreyesus - are not, and have never been, targets or selected as targets of NSO Group’s customers," said Shalev Hulio, stating that the disclosed list of 50,000 numbers is not a list of numbers selected for surveillance using Pegasus.
In a correspondence addressed to a partner of the Pegasus project, Thomas Clare, one of the lawyers of the Israeli company NSO, provided clarification on the issue. "This is a list of numbers that anyone can search on an open source system for reasons other than Pegasus surveillance. The fact that a number appears on this list in no way indicates whether that number has been selected for Pegasus surveillance," he explained.
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