DK turns to ministers over Pegasus spy programme

The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) is turning to five ministers and the public prosecutor, requesting answers on the purchase of Pegasus, and whether the spy software was used to wiretap Hungarian journalists and businessmen. DK deputy leader Agnes Vadai told an online press conference on Friday that Israeli company NSO's software had been developed to harvest data from mobile phones. The software was used to surveille Hungarian investigative journalists, businessmen and their acquaintances, as well as "at least one mayor", Vadai said. In the "biggest scandal of modern Hungarian democracy", indirect evidence has come to light that the Hungarian government was behind the surveillance, she said.