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MEXICO CITY Mexico s top anti-money laundering investigator said Wednesday that officials from previous administrations from 2012 to 2018 spent about $300 million in government money to purchase spyware from the Israeli spyware firm NSO Group.
The bills for programs like the Pegasus spyware appear to have included excess payments that may have been channeled back to former government officials as kickbacks.
Santiago Nieto, the head of Mexico s Financial Intelligence Unit, said the information is being given to prosecutors in Mexico.
Nieto said the amounts paid, and the way they were paid, suggested government corruption in an already questionable telephone tapping program that targeted journalists, activists and opposition figures, who at the time included President Andrés Manuel
July 21, 2021 at 3:29 pm
MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexico’s top anti-money laundering investigator said Wednesday that officials from previous administrations from 2012 to 2018 spent about $300 million in government money to purchase spyware from the Israeli spyware firm NSO Group.
The bills for programs like the Pegasus spyware appear to have included excess payments that may have been channeled back to former government officials as kickbacks.
Santiago Nieto, the head of Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit, said the information is being given to prosecutors in Mexico.
Nieto said the amounts paid, and the way they were paid, suggested government corruption in an already questionable telephone tapping program that targeted journalists, activists and opposition figures, who at the time included President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his inner circle.
Mexico s then-president Enrique Pena Nieto takes notes as an unidentified Mexican diplomat takes pictures with her mobile phone during the plenary session at the Americas Summit in Lima, Peru, Saturday, April 14, 2018. (AP/Karel Navarro)
MEXICO CITY, Mexico Mexico’s top anti-money laundering investigator said Wednesday that officials from previous administrations from 2012 to 2018 spent about $300 million in government money to purchase spyware from the Israeli spyware firm NSO Group.
The bills for programs like the Pegasus spyware appear to have included excess payments that may have been channeled back to former government officials as kickbacks.
Santiago Nieto, the head of Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit, said the information is being given to prosecutors in Mexico.
Mexican govt s $300 mn spending on spyware included kickbacks, says anti-money laundering body
The bills for programs like the Pegasus spyware appear to have included excess payments that may have been channelled back to former government officials as kickbacks Mexico had the largest list about 700 phone numbers among the thousands allegedly selected by NSO clients for potential surveillance Associated Press
Updated Jul 22, 2021, 8:44 AM IST
Mexico s top anti-money laundering investigator has said that officials from previous administrations from 2012 to 2018 spent about $300 million in government money to purchase spyware from the Israeli spyware firm NSO Group. The bills for programs like the Pegasus spyware appear to have included excess payments that may have been channelled back to former government officials as kickbacks.