• XLE@piefed.social
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    23 hours ago

    NSO Group co-founder Shalev Hulio travelled to Panama in 2013 on an Israeli diplomatic passport and told Panamanian immigration he would be staying at the Israeli embassy.

    I can’t read the word Panama without thinking of the Panama Papers. And the journalist who discovered them and was subsequently assassinated with a car bomb.

    The details of Hulio’s diplomatic passport have been revealed alongside new testimony from a former intelligence officer in Morocco that confirms the North African country had access to Pegasus — despite its claims that it has not used the spyware. The findings come from a new collaborative investigation into NSO Group coordinated by Forbidden Stories.

    Kudos to Forbidden Stories for uncovering this corruption, because I didn’t expect it to be this international.

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      1 hour ago

      Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist who was car-bombed, did not discover the Panama Papers. Instead, she used them as a source. She was a Maltese journalist who researched the involvement of highly-placed Maltese politicians in the Panama laundry.