Spyware company NSO Group’s co-founder Shalev Hulio used an Israeli diplomatic passport to enter Panama in 2013, raising questions over the firm’s claims of independence from the Israeli state.
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.
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.
Kudos to Forbidden Stories for uncovering this corruption, because I didn’t expect it to be this international.