The CNI investigated Pere Aragonès with the 'Pegasus' software because it believed he was directing the CDR

This Friday the former director of the CNI Paz Esteban testifies in the espionage case

   BARCELONA, 25 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The National Intelligence Center (CNI) investigated the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, because it believed that he was the one who directed the Defense Committees of the Republic (CDR) and that, for this reason, the 'Pegasus' software was installed in his phone.

Sources consulted this Thursday by Europa Press have assured that the documents on the espionage of Aragonès that the Government partially declassified at the request of the judge are "full of deleted parts", with entire pages crossed out, and that they want to study this documentation.

All this arises one day before the former director of the CNI Paz Esteban declares this Friday that she is being investigated for the complaint filed by Aragonès for the espionage case with 'Pegasus'.

The sources have considered that the CNI's justification for tapping Aragonès' phone is "outside of all reality" and that they are implausible inventions, they say verbatim.

This Friday, Esteban will connect from Madrid by videoconference with the 29th Investigative Court of Barcelona, ​​and the judge and the parties will listen to him from a room in the Ciutat de la Justicia.

In December, Aragonès appeared before the judge to ratify the complaint that initiated this case, and in his statement he attributed the telephone spying he suffered to the CNI.

Aragonès told the judge that he detected the spying in July 2020 following the Citizen Lab report that alerted him that there were "several indicators of compromise" on his phone.

As a result of this notice, he commissioned an expert report that detected infections from 2018 to March 2020 and that had reached his mobile phone through SMS messages that he did not detect at the time, when he was vice president of the Generalitat and Minister of Economy.