A new earthquake shakes national security this Tuesday, January 13, 2026. The Minister of Defense, Pedro Sánchez, ordered an exhaustive review of the military and police leadership after the explosive complaint by Andrés Idárraga, the acting Minister of Justice, who claims to have been a victim of illegal espionage.

According to Idárraga, his phone was infiltrated between August and November 2025 using the controversial Pegasus software, achieving the extraction of 2.3 gigabytes of sensitive information. The seriousness of the matter lies in the fact that, on that date, the official was leading high-level investigations into corruption within the same state forces.

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The device suffered more than 8,700 infiltrations and, on at least 124 occasions, spies remotely activated its camera and microphone to monitor it in real time.

“They were setting up a smear campaign against me because of the information I had been receiving,” Idárraga sentenced.

Given this, Minister Sánchez described the fact as “unacceptable” and announced immediate coordination with the Attorney General’s Office to determine who is behind this illegal tracking and whether reserved State expenses were used to finance it.

As an emergency measure, the Ministry of Defense convened a Joint Intelligence Board to audit counterintelligence operations carried out last year. The objective is to verify if any official structure diverted its functions to persecute a member of the same government cabinet.

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