The leader of the nationalist party and deputy prime minister of Poland admitted today that his country bought Israeli spy software Pegasus, and where he added that he did not use the application against the political opposition, reveals the Republic world.
In recent weeks accusations of the use of Pegasus have rocked Poland, which the media say is a scandal compared to the 'Watergate' investigation that led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon in 1974.
It should be noted that the Pegasus application was discovered by a consortium of 17 international media outlets, where they denounced that journalists, activists and political dissidents around the world were spied on through this software developed by an Israeli company, namely NSO Group.
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The investigation codenamed “Project Pegasus” and several world newspapers, such as the French “Le Monde”, the British “The Guardian” and the North American “The Washington Post“, was based on a list obtained by the organizations Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International, which includes 50 phone numbers selected by NSO Group customers since 2016 for potential surveillance.
Once installed on a mobile phone, Pegasus can access the user's messages and data, but also activate the device remotely to capture sound or image.
"It would be bad if Polish services didn't have this kind of tool“, said Jaroslaw Kaczynski, president of the Law and Justice party (PiS) and also deputy prime minister, to the Polish weekly Sieci.
Asked about accusations that the government had used the program to spy on the opposition, Kaczynski said it was "used by anti-crime and corruption services in many countries".
In the interview, to be published in full next Monday, the leader stressed that any use of such methods was “always under the control of a court and the Public Prosecutor's Office", also rejecting the opposition's accusations, qualifying them as "so much noise for nothing".
It should also be noted that several human rights organizations sent a letter to the European Union, asking that it should apply sanctions against the NSO Group.
This idea of thought, defended by 86 NGOs, was shown at the end in a letter sent to EU diplomacy officials.
