Call for Independent Investigation of Slovenian Politicians
The Social Democrats (SD) president and vice-president Tanja Fajon and Matjaž Nemec, respectively, called on Prime Minister Janez Janša to initiate an independent, voluntary forensic investigation of mobile devices of political leaders, journalists and civil society in the face of the Pegasus scandal.
Fajon said today Janša should explain what he was doing and
talking about during his visit to the company selling the spyware Pegasus in
Europe while in Israel in December 2020.
This comes after a consortium of media reported that hacking
spyware sold by the Israeli NSO Group has been allegedly used by governments to
target journalists, activists and political opponents.
Fajon also urged Janša to enable an "independent and
voluntary forensic investigation of mobile devices, primarily of leaders of
political parties but also investigative journalists and civil society, so that
we'll actually know whether eavesdropping was actually taking place here as
well".
Some European countries have already announced independent
investigations, she noted.
If Janša fails to order an investigation until a certain
deadline, European institutions or independent bodies will have to be asked to do
it, Fajon said.
She said the European Parliament had been urged a few days
ago to start dealing both with spying allegations on European ground as well as
a rise in neo-Nazism and rightist extremism in Slovenia.
Nemec said he would call a session of the parliamentary
Intelligence Oversight Commission (KNOVS) to discuss the Pegasus scandal and
allegations of political pressure on the police, especially in connection to
the Yellow Jackets group.
He said that both journalists and politicians, including the
prime minister and state secretary for national security in the prime
minister's office Žan Mahnič, would be invited to the session that was to be
held at the end of August.
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