
When there is multiple owners in taking the key decision, then the result is open, this what we could see from the Pegasus scandal. NSO Group will be dissolved after a months-long dispute between its partners. The private equity firm that owns NSO, the Israeli spyware company at the heart of the Pegasus scandal, is being liquidated. The spyware has been used to infect the mobile devices of targets to extract messages and record calls.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense licenses the export of Pegasus to foreign governments, but not to private entities. London-based Novalpina Capital, which bought the NSO Group in 2019, is being dissolved after a dispute between its co-founders. Recently, the NSO Group has been at the centre of disputes , after an international media investigation claimed its Pegasus software was used to spy on the phones of human rights activists, journalists and even heads of state.
A report says, Novalpina’s three principals - Stephen Peel, Bastian Lueken and Stefan Kowski had been at loggerheads about the remaining investment of its maiden funds, the report added. It is a clear sign of , Fallout from the Pegasus scandal. However, experts says, it is another planned move by the investors to take this software based spyware to another height.
In July 2021, a joint investigation conducted by seventeen media organisations, revealed that Pegasus spyware was used to target and spy on heads of state, activists, journalists, and dissidents, enabling "human rights violations around the world on a massive scale". The investigation, dubbed “the Pegasus Project”, was launched after a leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets.
However, the company has denied all allegations calling it a "planned and well-orchestrated media campaign led by Forbidden Stories and pushed by special interest groups". Denying the list of names published by several media outlets, NSO said, "The list is not a list of targets or potential targets of Pegasus. Any claim that a name in the list is necessarily related to a Pegasus target or Pegasus potential target is erroneous and false."
Its liquidation leaves NSO’s future ownership unclear, just as the company is grappling with the fallout from a vast wiretapping scandal. The French business daily Les Echos reported that Novalpina was being liquidated to end an “internal war” between its founders.
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