Cybersecurity
Polish Central Banker Testifies in Pegasus Spyware Case
- Bank board member Pogonowski testifies in parliament
- Central bank protests his ‘illegal’ detention and questioning
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Police detained a member of the management board of Poland’s central bank on Monday to make him cooperate with a parliamentary investigation into the use of Pegasus spyware under the previous government.
Piotr Pogonowski, who is not a member of the Monetary Policy Council that sets interest rates, ran the country’s Internal Security Agency between 2015 and 2020. He previously refused to testify before a parliamentary committee examining whether the former Law & Justice administration deployed Pegasus to spy on its political opponents.