The Amnesys affair: massive French-made spyware in Libya in the service of the Gaddafi regime

PARIS - Amesys did not know that its "digital eavesdropping tool" sold to Libyan intelligence services could be used to monitor opponents of the regime, according to an expert report published by the daily L'Humanité.

The Paris trial concerning the Libyan financing of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign will soon tackle a particularly dirty case: the Amesys affair. The company, which was formed in 2007 by the merger of i2e and Artware, supplied dictator Muammar Gaddafi with the Eagle mass spying tool under a €15.5 million contract signed with Libyan intelligence chief Abdallah Senousi, which included training local engineers and remote bug tracking.

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