A court in Barcelona that is investigating the use of Pegasus spyware to allegedly snoop on high-profile Catalan separatists has named Spain's former spy chief, Paz Esteban, a suspect and called her to testify, a court document showed on Monday. Canada's Citizen Lab group said last year that in the wake of a failed independence bid in 2017, more than 60 people linked to the Catalan separatist movement, including regional leader Pere Aragones and several of his predecessors, had been targeted by Pegasus, made by Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group. Aragones, who was vice-president of the Catalan government at the time of the alleged spying, filed a complaint against her and NSO Group in June 2022, which the court accepted on Oct. 6, according to the document.

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