Pegasus snoop affair: Israeli envoy says it is India’s internal matter

Friday, 29 October 2021Newsdesk

A day after the Supreme Court ordered a “thorough inquiry” into allegations of unauthorised surveillance using the Pegasus spyware, Naor Gilon, Israel’s new ambassador to India, declined to be drawn into the issue, calling it an “internal” matter of India.

New Delhi, 29 October 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express, He said every export of the NSO Group — it is the maker of the Pegasus spyware — needs a licence from the Israeli government and this licence is only for exports to governments, not “non-governmental actors”. He made these remarks Thursday during his first media interaction after taking charge earlier in the week as his country’s envoy to New Delhi. Asked whether the embassy or the Israeli government will cooperate with the committee tasked by the Supreme Court to conduct an inquiry, Gilon said: “NSO, very simply and I will not go into more details, is a private Israeli company. Every export of NSO needs a licence from the Israeli government. We grant the export licence only for exporting to governments. This is the only and the main requirement, they cannot sell it to non-governmental actors.”

Source - The Indian Express