A Barcelona court docket dominated that the co-founders of spy ware maker NSO Group, Omri Lavie and Shalev Hulio, and former government of two affiliate corporations Yuval Somekh, could be indicted as a part of an investigation into the alleged hacking of Catalan lawyer Andreu Van den Eynde.
Barcelona-based human rights nonprofit Iridia, which filed the legal criticism, announced the ruling on Monday.
In a decrease court docket, Iridia requested the choose cost Lavie, Hulio, and Somekh, along with their corporations. Initially, the court docket rejected the request. Iridia appealed, and the upper court docket now dominated that the three could be charged.
“This ruling units an essential authorized precedent within the battle in opposition to spy ware espionage in Europe,” Iridia spokesperson Lucía Foraster Garriga instructed TechCrunch. “The people concerned will now be held personally accountable in court docket.”
“We’ve no remark,” NSO Group spokesperson Gil Lanier instructed TechCrunch in an e-mail.
Lavie, Shalev, and Somekh didn’t reply to TechCrunch’s request for remark.