The judge of the National High Court, José Luis Calama, has agreed to lift the secrecy of the Pegasus case and has agreed to summon the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, as a witness on July 5.
Bolaños was the member of the Government who announced that the phones of the president, Pedro Sánchez, and the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, had been spied on with the Pegasus software. Immediately afterwards, a complaint was filed by the State Attorney’s Office to try to find the author. Later it was discovered that the cell phones of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, were also spied on.
In addition, the magistrate has agreed to extend the rogatory commission sent to Israel so that a judicial commission headed by him travels to that country to take a witness statement from the head of the company that markets the Pegasus program. Calama has already addressed a first rogatory commission to this country so that the company could report on different aspects of this computer tool.
Within the framework of this investigation and while it has remained secret, Calama took a statement as witnesses last Friday from the former director of the CNI Paz Esteban -dismissed after this espionage- and the official of that body in charge of preparing the reports on this matter.
The head of the Central Court of Instruction Four agrees to lift the secrecy of the proceedings, notwithstanding that he may re-order it if the investigation so requires.
