Spanish Intelligence Probes Government Phones for Pegasus Spyware, Including PM’s Wife

After announcing last week that the mobile phones of Pedro Sanchez and Margarita Robles, the Minister of Defense, were hacked using the Pegasus spyware, the Spanish government has requested, for security reasons, to also analyze the phones of the other members of the government and of Pedro Sanchez’s wife, Begoña Gómez, according to sources close to the National Intelligence Center (CNI) who spoke to Ok Diario.

To read: Spanish PM and Defense Minister’s Phones Hacked with Pegasus Spyware, Morocco Suspected

The results of the technical examination of the mobile phones of these personalities will be made public this Tuesday, assure sources from the Moncloa, stressing that the analysis of Begoña Gómez’s phone aims to confirm or not the hypothesis according to which the latter’s device would have served as a bridge to hack that of her husband, Pedro Sanchez.

To read: Spanish PM’s Phone Hacked: Thousands of Documents and Photos Stolen in Pegasus Spyware Attack

Public opinion and the opposition continue to question the reasons that led Pedro Sanchez to support the Moroccan autonomy plan for the Sahara. But the truth, points out the very critical site towards the Kingdom, is that the agreement with Morocco would benefit Sanchez’s wife, Begoña Gómez, director of Central Africa of the Instituto de Empresa (IE) Foundation since 2018, a center that could strengthen its partnership with APD Maroc, a center for training senior executives based in Casablanca.