Jet Airways founder chairman Naresh Goyal, bureaucrats, Reliance, Adani officials on Pegasus project list

The names of more businessmen and bureaucrats have appeared as potential targets of snooping by the Israeli spyware Pegasus, revealed in a leaked global database. Names that have surfaced include Naresh Goyal, founder chairman of Jet Airways; BC Tripathi, ex-chief of GAIL India; Ajay Singh, SpiceJet chairman and managing director, and Essar Group’s Prashant Ruia, The Wire reported.

Naresh Goyal, according to the report, became a target of the NSO Group’s Pegasus project after Jet Airways landed in deep financial crisis with two-thirds of its fleet grounded in 2018. Following this, in 2019, Goyal stepped down from the Board of Jet Airways along with his wife Anita Goyal.