The phones of other members of the government are being examined to determine whether they may also have been targeted.
“I don’t think now is the time to engage in supposition or conjecture about what the motivation may have been.” “These facts have been confirmed and are irrefutable,” said Bolaños. Data was extracted from both phones.īolaños said the “illicit” and “external” targeting would be investigated by Spain’s highest criminal court, the Audiencia Nacional, adding the targeting must have come from abroad as any such monitoring in Spain would have required judicial authorisation. In a hastily convened press conference on Monday morning, Félix Bolaños, the minister for the presidency’s, said Sánchez phone was targeted in May June 2021, while Robles’s was targeted in June 2021. The Spanish government has said the mobile phones of the prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, and the defense minister, Margarita Robles, were both infected last year with the Pegasus spyware that its manufacturers claim is available only to state agencies.
