Jacek Karnowski, a politician key to the liberal opposition’s campaign for the 2019 general elections, was spied on by intelligence services using Pegasus, Gazeta Wyborcza revealed on Friday. Jacek Karnowski, currently mayor of Sopot on Poland’s Baltic Sea coast, was monitored by state surveillance in 2018-2019 when he was one of the key politicians promoting an opposition alliance to win the Senate elections, according to Friday’s daily Gazeta Wyborcza. (The united opposition did win the Senate in 2019). “This is a violation of privacy and human dignity,” Karnowski told Wyborcza in response to the revelations. “Those who monitored their political opponents should be brought before the Tribunal of the State.” Wyborcza says it found Karnowski’s name on a list of monitored individuals made available to multiple media outlets that were part of the Pegasus Project consortium. According to the paper, the Polish Central Anti-Corruption Bureau CBA tapped Karnowski’s phone 10 to 20 times between 2018 and 2019. It is impossible to say what data the services took from Karnowski’s phone, Wyborcza reports, because the device was “cleaned up” of data.
via balkan insight: NEW PEGASUS TARGET IDENTIFIED IN POLAND
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