Two big names have been revealed in the list of spy software Pegasus of Israeli company NSO. According to the news portal 'The Wire', the names of industrialist Anil Ambani and former CBI chief Alok Verma were also included in the spy list.
According to the report, Alok Verma was sacked from the post of former CBI chief by the central government in 2018. Soon after, Verma's name was included in the list of Pegasus. Along with this, the name of Anil Ambani and his wife along with Tony Jesudasan, Corporate Communication Officer of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani (ADA) Group was also included in this list.
However, the report also said that it cannot be confirmed whether Anil Ambani is currently using the same phone number or not. There is no response from ADA at this time.
According to the report, the numbers of Venkata Rao Posina, representative of Dassault Aviation (the company that makes Rafale aircraft) in India, Inderjit Sial, chief of Saab India and Pratyush Kumar, chief of Boeing India, are also included in the figures leaked at different periods in 2018 and 2019.
Along with this, the phone of Harmanjit Negi, head of French company Energy EDF, is also included in the leaked data. Let us tell you that the leaders of the opposition have been accusing the central government of benefiting Anil Ambani regarding the Rafale deal with France.
Earlier on Sunday, News portals reported in its report that governments around the world have taken the help of Israel's software Pegasus to spy on journalists. This was claimed in the report released after a joint investigation by 17 media groups on Sunday.
Here, it has also been revealed that governments around the world have kept 180 reporters and editors on their watch list. These countries include India, where 40 journalists, 3 opposition leaders, 2 union ministers and a judge who criticized the government and Prime Minister Modi were also under surveillance.
According to the report, Pegasus clients in different parts of the world spy on journalists who have been exposing the government's failures or criticizing its decisions. From Asia to America, many countries spied on journalists through Pegasus or kept them on watch lists. The report has also given the names of some countries of the world, where the eyes of the government are on journalists. Topping the list is Azerbaijan, where 48 journalists were on a government watch list. In India, this figure is 40.
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