Intelligence Firm Black Cube, Bosses Plead Guilty in Romania Surveillance Case
Romanian organised crime prosecutors on Tuesday asked for
lenient sentences after the heads of corporate intelligence company Black Cube Dan Zorella, Avi Yanus and Gal Farchi admitted spying on the chief
prosecutor at Romania’s National Anti-Corruption Directorate, Laura Kovesi, who
has since taken the helm at the European Public Prosecutor’s Office.
The plea agreement included a 35-month suspended jail
sentence for each man, to run concurrently with a three-year supervision
programme. The court must confirm the verdict by February 17, according to the
G4Media website.
Romanian prosecutors accuse Black Cube’s chiefs and
employees of organising a criminal group, gaining illegal access to a computer
system, the unauthorised transfer of computer data, computer forgery, illegal
operations with computer devices and programmes, and violation of the secrecy
of correspondence.
Black Cube bosses allegedly launched a campaign of
surveillance and harassment against Laura Kovesi at the request of clients who
have yet to be identified and prosecuted.
Black Cube employees hired by the unidentified Romanian
contractors hacked into Laura Kovesi’s emails and stole data.
Another two Israeli citizens in the Black Cube scandal in
Romania, Ron Weiner and David Geclowicz, were given suspended prison sentences
of two years and eight months each in January 2017 for illegally accessing the
email addresses of relatives of Kovesi.
In September 2016, Romanian prosecutors detained Daniel
Dragomir, a former Romanian secret services employee, who was suspected of
having mediated the connection between those who wanted to find out information
about Kovesi and Black Cube employees who were in charge of spying on her.
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