Eavesdropping scandal in Hungary: Pegasus spy software deployed to track more than 100 people – Topky.sk

According to the news server 24.hu, Stummer recalled that he could have partially inspected the documents on the purchase of software in October, but did not see the details concerning the financial context of the transaction. The Pegasus case was revived after the chairman of the Defense and Interior Committee of the Hungarian Parliament, Lajos Kósa from the government party Fidesz, confirmed last Thursday that the spy software was purchased by the Ministry of the Interior. Kosa said this after hearing the Minister of the Interior Sándor Pinter at a meeting of this committee.

“The information services in question have always used the software in accordance with the law. They have done their work with the permission of a court or the Minister of Justice,” Kosa stressed to reporters. Regarding the number of people being tracked, Stummer said he knew the exact number, but stressed that the more important question was on what authority and when they used the software. The contents of the meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Defense and Home Affairs last Thursday were kept secret until 2050, according to the Fidesz decision. in Hungary.

In this context, the news server direkt36.hu recalls that among the more than 300 people surveyed in Hungary were not only investigative journalists, but also wealthy owners of media companies and people from their immediate surroundings. According to the server, direct evidence has been found that the Hungarian authorities are behind the surveillance, while there have been reports of many abuses of Pegasus, which has been deployed to 50,000 targets worldwide.