The Barcelona Court has ordered the investigation into the Pegasus case to be extended and three executives of NSO Group, the Israeli company that owns the spy software, and its subsidiaries in Luxembourg to be charged. This is the first time that executives of the company will have to answer to justice, according to the Irídia entity. It was precisely this human rights centre that He named the head of NSO Group by extending the complaint for espionage to one of the key lawyers in the judicialisation of the Process, Andreu Van den Eynde, who represents several ERC defendants.

The use of spyware against pro-independence leaders is not new: it was already known it had been used against Roger Torrent when he was Speaker. But the so-called Catalangate became a scandal on Monday, following an investigation by Citizen Lab, a group of cybersecurity experts at the University of Toronto, which was made public in conjunction with an extensive report in The New Yorker. According to this research, the phone of Catalan president Pere Aragonès, as well as those of former presidents Quim Torra and Artur Mas and the devices of over 60 Catalan politicians, activists, lawyers and journalists have been the target of a cyberespionage campaign using Israeli company NSO's Pegasus programme. Some of them have also been victims of a different spyware –also Israeli– called Candiru. Citizen Lab concludes that Catalangate is the largest case of cyberespionage they have documented.