A Barcelona courtroom dominated that the co-founders of spy ware maker NSO Group, Omri Lavie and Shalev Hulio, and former govt of two affiliate corporations Yuval Somekh, may be indicted as a part of an investigation into the alleged hacking of Catalan lawyer Andreu Van den Eynde.
Barcelona-based human rights nonprofit Iridia, which filed the felony grievance, announced the ruling on Monday.
In a decrease courtroom, Iridia requested the decide cost Lavie, Hulio, and Somekh, along with their corporations. Initially, the courtroom rejected the request. Iridia appealed, and the upper courtroom now dominated that the three may be charged.
“This ruling units an essential authorized precedent within the battle towards spy ware espionage in Europe,” Iridia spokesperson Lucía Foraster Garriga informed TechCrunch. “The people concerned will now be held personally accountable in courtroom.”
“We now have no remark,” NSO Group spokesperson Gil Lanier informed TechCrunch in an e-mail.
Lavie, Shalev, and Somekh didn’t reply to TechCrunch’s request for remark.
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