Israeli spyware company NSO Group has stonewalled questions as to whether it is operating legally, according to consultants acting on behalf of the controversial company’s owners.
Berkeley Research Group, the US consultancy that was last year put in charge of the private equity fund that owns 70 per cent of NSO, has told EU lawmakers that its inquiries about NSO’s “lawfulness” have been “ignored and/or frustrated by NSO Group’s management team”.
Concerns remain about “the historical management of the NSO Group” and “possible ongoing activities in relation to which [BRG is] being kept in the dark”, BRG’s lawyers wrote in a letter to MEPs.