Oregon examines spyware investment amid controversy
ANDREW SELSKY, Associated Press
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FILE - This Oct. 30, 2019, file photo show the Oregon State Treasury office in Tigard, Ore. Oregon was Novalpina s first major investor. Stephen Peel and Stefan Kowski, two founding Novalpina Capital partners, showed up at Oregon treasury offices in the Portland suburb of Tigard in November 2017 to make a pitch to the Oregon Investment Council, which oversees the state s $90 billion pension fund. Novalpina Capital has been saddled with both an internal dispute among its founding partners and an explosive report showing NSO Group s spyware has been widely misused around the globe.Andrew Selsky/AP
Oregon's pension fund reconsiders its $233m investment in Novalpina Capital, which has majority ownership of Herzliya-based firm whose spyware is allegedly being misused worldwide
The future ownership of an Israeli spyware company whose product has been used to hack into the cellphones of journalists, human rights workers and possibly
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