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Undercover Global S. L., the Spanish defense and private security company that was charged with protecting the Ecuadorian embassy in London during the long stay there of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, spied on the cyberactivist for the US intelligence service. That's according to statements and documents to which EL PAÍS have had access. David Morales, the owner of the company, supposedly handed over audio and video to the CIA of the meetings Assange held with his lawyers and collaborators. Morales is being investigated for this activity by Spain's High Court, the Audiencia Nacional.
The judicial investigation into the director of UC Global S. L. and the activities of his company were ordered by a judge named José de la Mata, and they began weeks after EL PAÍS published videos, audios and reports that show how the company spied on the meetings that the cyberactivist held in the embassy.
The secret probe is the consequence of a criminal complaint filed by Assange himself, in which he accuses Morales and the company of the alleged offenses involving violations of his privacy and the secrecy of his client-attorney privileges, as well as misappropriation, bribery and money laundering. The director of UC Global S. L. has not responded to calls from this newspaper in order to confirm his version of events.
Morales, a former member of the military who is on leave of absence, stated both verbally and in writing to a number of his employees that, despite having been hired by the government of then-Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, he also worked “for the Americans,” to whom he allegedly sent documents, videos and audios of the meetings that the Australian activist held in the embassy. “We are playing in another league. This is the first division,” he told his closest colleagues after attending a security fair in the US city of Las Vegas in 2015 where he supposedly made his first American contacts.
Despite the fact that the Spanish firm – which is headquartered in the southern city of Jerez de la Frontera – was hired by Senain, the Ecuadorian intelligence services, Morales called on his employees several times to keep his relationship with the US intelligence services a secret.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday September 27 2019, @08:49PM (9 children)
Because if they approved of the spying, Assange doesn't have much of a case.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 27 2019, @09:03PM (2 children)
The UN will save Assange!
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 27 2019, @10:08PM (1 child)
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday September 28 2019, @12:31AM
Hey Torquemada! Whaddya say?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday September 28 2019, @06:55AM (3 children)
Approved to pass information to the CIA? You have a citation for that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday September 28 2019, @07:14AM (2 children)
Didn't notice the "if", eh? Yes, Ecuador could have approved. Does it sound so implausible?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday September 28 2019, @07:33AM (1 child)
Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday September 28 2019, @07:43AM
Why? Sounds perfectly routine. Not necessarily acceptable, but definitely a regular occurrence. What about it seems so odd?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday September 29 2019, @07:32PM (1 child)
The CIA is a government agency. Apparently, not a secret government agency, the way they leak stuff nowadays.
Cases have been tossed because of this.
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday September 29 2019, @07:46PM
They probably don't care if it gets tossed. Right now he's still locked up, and for them that's good enough. And whatever happens, well, nothing is going to happen to the CIA, certainly not in a Spanish court...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Funny) by gawdonblue on Friday September 27 2019, @10:48PM (3 children)
There was some Assange wrongdoing.
"ASSANGE INVOLVED IN CONSPIRACY TO SPY ON EMBASSY!"
This has got to be worth putting him away for the rest of his life.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday September 27 2019, @11:37PM (1 child)
What "proof"? Where the quote marks in your post supposed to be a hyperlink?
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday September 28 2019, @07:04AM
There, in TFS. Since he was spied on, Assange is involved in the case.
Yeah, sure, he might have been involved unknowingly, as a victim, but involved he was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday September 28 2019, @07:00AM
Torturous humor, but... yeah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 28 2019, @11:34AM
Audiencia Nacional is not Spain's High Court, it's the government judicial arm, following Franco's "Tribunal de Orden Público"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiencia_Nacional [wikipedia.org]
TS is the High Court.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Spain [wikipedia.org]
This means that this trial-investigation-prosecution-whatever will end in nothing.