Spain's ombudsman said on Sunday it would investigate the government's alleged spying of Catalan separatist figures during the height of the region's bid for independence, while the government announced a separate inquiry by its CNI intelligence agency.
The probes come following intense pressure on the government to explain itself after Canada's Citizen Lab group, a digital rights group, said more than 60 people linked to the Catalan separatist movement, including several MEPs, politicians, lawyers and activists, had been targets of "Pegasus" spyware made by Israel's NSO Group.
