Spanish Intelligence: No Evidence Morocco Blackmailed PM with Hacked Phone Data

The CNI rules out the hypothesis that Morocco could have exploited this data. But the Popular Party (PP) continues to cling to this theory. The CNI does not consider itself responsible for these attacks on Sanchez’s and several ministers’ phones, specifying that it has regularly analyzed these devices.

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For the Spanish intelligence service, it is plausible that the Moroccan services have infected the phones of Sanchez and the ministers of the Interior and Defense, especially if one takes into account the period during which these attacks took place, in May-June 2021 when the two countries were going through a serious diplomatic crisis.

This "Pegasus affair" has affected Sanchez’s close associates, such as Minister Félix Bolaños, Defense Minister Margarita Robles, who had to dismiss the former CNI director Paz Esteban, or Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares, who recently accused Russia of having pushed Algeria to suspend its trade exchanges with Spain.