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Serbian prosecutor probing Trump Tower project targeted with spyware

Summarised from Politico Europe's report · Updated 19 Oct, 12:07 · Archive

A Serbian prosecutor investigating a Trump Tower project in Belgrade was targeted with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware.

Politico Europe reports that Rade Bajić, a member of Serbia's Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime, received an Apple Threat Notification on 13 August indicating he may have been targeted with Pegasus spyware, an Israeli-made surveillance tool. The discovery, made public by Toronto University's Citizen Lab in collaboration with Serbian digital rights organisation SHARE Foundation, comes as the country faces mounting controversy over plans to redevelop the former Yugoslav military headquarters in Belgrade into a luxury Trump Tower associated with Jared Kushner.

Bajić's targeting follows revelations in September that at least 14 people in Serbia, including student activists and opposition figures, had received warnings indicating potential spyware targeting, with researchers confirming Pegasus infection in at least one case. Andrijana Ristić, a policy advisor at SHARE Foundation, said spyware surveillance in Serbia has 'steadily expanded from civil society and journalists to student activists, politicians and now university and judicial representatives', citing 'perceived impunity and state inaction'. The University of Belgrade's rector, Vladan Đokić, was also found to have had his phone infected with Pegasus.

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In this story: Rade Bajić · Jared Kushner · Donald Trump · Serbia · Belgrade · Citizen Lab · SHARE Foundation

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