Overview

• The Juzgado de Instrucción 20 in Barcelona has set her declaration as an investigada for September 29, 2025.
• The Audiencia de Barcelona ordered Esteban’s imputation after finding sufficient evidence linking CNI servers to Pegasus spyware attacks on ERC deputies’ phones.
• Esteban remains under investigation in three separate cases involving alleged surveillance of Josep Maria Jové and Diana Riba, authorized monitoring of former Catalan president Pere Aragonès and espionage of ex-MEP Jordi Solé.
• Her testimony is contingent on a pending suplicatorio request to the Council of Ministers to lift her official-secrecy obligation.
• Esteban was dismissed as CNI director in May 2022 following revelations of mass espionage targeting Catalan independentist politicians.