Spain's prime minister Pedro Sanchez delivers his speech at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, on June 21, 2021. (LLUIS GENE / AFP)
MADRID - The mobile phones of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Defense Minister Margarita Robles were tapped by the Pegasus system, a Spanish official said on Monday.
Felix Bolanos, Spain's minister for the presidency, said the previous attempts to spy on Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez'S phone were reported in May 2021, while those against Defense Minister Margarita Robles were reported a month later
Their phones were subjected to "illegal and external listening" using Pegasus, according to two technical reports from the Spanish National Cryptologic Center, said Felix Bolanos, Spain's minister for the presidency, at a hastily arranged press conference alongside government spokesperson Isabel Rodriguez.
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He said the previous attempts to spy on Sanchez's phone were reported in May 2021, while those against Robles were reported a month later.
"There is no evidence of any intrusion after these dates," Bolanos said, but highlighting the seriousness of events.
"These are proven and extremely serious facts, that confirm that there have been intrusions in areas outside state institutions and outside the law," he said.
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Bolanos said the information had been given to the judiciary so that a full investigation could be carried out to find "the whole truth."
"We are reporting facts that are proven and reliable. They are not assumptions," he noted.
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