The judge of the National Court, José Luis Calama, has taken a new step to try to find out who could infect the phones of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and three ministers through the Pegasus software. Already with the dump of the phones of those affected, he now wants to know what secret documents have been affected. For this reason, the magistrate agrees to send a request to the Council of Ministers so that it proceeds to declassify the matters, acts, documents, information, data and objects, declared secret or reserved.
This declassification is aimed at being able to take statements from the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, and the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, two of the members of the Government spied on. At the time of being able to ask them about the documentation that could have been affected by the infiltration of Pegasus. As there may be classified government documentation, the government must agree to the declassification so that the ministers can talk about it.
President Sánchez has already promised in the Congress of Deputies, to questions from the ERC and PNV about Pegasus, that the Government would declassify everything that justice requested of them.
Calama has agreed to these proceedings in view of the content of the testimonial statements of the former director of the CNI Paz Esteban, of the official of this body number 7613 (who signed the preliminary reports attached to the complaints of the State Attorney) and of the Minister of the of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños.
The latter answered in writing a series of questions sent by the judge about how the espionage to the telephones of the president and three other members of the Government was known and on whom the security of the devices depended.
The judge summoned Bolaños as a witness because he was in charge of announcing the filing of a complaint through the State Attorney's Office after the discovery of this espionage.
The objective of the investigation of the National High Court, for the crimes of disclosure of secrets and discovery, is to find out who is the author of the espionage. He has already requested a rogatory commission from Israel to be able to take a statement from the company that sells the software to find out his possible client.
Likewise, Calama has required the National Intelligence Center (CNI) to deliver the dump of all the spied phones to avoid the loss of the sensitive documentation they stored.
The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, has assured that the Government will give the judges all the information available to it and has recalled that at the time it was he himself who highlighted the wiretapping and who offered his collaboration with the Justice by providing all the information that was known to him.
"This procedure begins with a complaint from the Government and we all agree to provide all the information," he said. Bolaños has emphasized that, in this matter, the Government is the complainant because several of those responsible "suffered an illegal intervention" and has stressed that it is the first to demand that everything that has happened be clarified, reports Nekane D. Hermoso.
