According to Catalan Court, NSO group managers can be invoiced for Spyware examinations

A court in Barcelona decided that the co -founders of the Spyware Maker NSO Group, Omri Lavie and Shalev Hulio, and former executive two subsidiaries Yuval Jurchh can be charged with the alleged hacking of the Catalan lawyer Andreu van den Eynde.

The non -profit organization Iridia based in Barcelona, ​​which submitted the criminal complaint, announced the judgment on Monday.

In a lower court, Iridia asked the judge to accuse Lavie, Hulio and now in addition to their companies. First, the court rejected the application. Iridia appealed and the higher dish now decided that the three could be charged.

“This decision is an important legal precedent in the fight against Spyware espionage in Europe,” Garriga, spokesman for Iridia Lucía, told Techcrunch. “The people involved are now personally blamed in court.”

“We have no comment,” said the spokesman for the NSO group, Gil Lanier, to Techcrunch in an e -mail.

Lavie, Shalev and Jurchh did not respond to Techcrunch's request for comments.