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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>A version of this article first appeared in The India Cable<\/a> \u2013 a subscribers-only newsletter published by The Wire and Galileo Ideas.You can subscribe to The India Cable by clicking here<\/a>.
\nUnknown to most people in India, the Indian Ocean nation of Mauritius has been hit by a political controversy over allegations that the government of Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth may have authorised the installation of surveillance equipment<\/a> \u2013 by a team of Indian technicians \u2013 at its main Internet cable landing station.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the \u2018Indian\u2019 dimension to the scandal emerged only after an embattled Jugnauth outed the nationality of the \u2018technicians\u2019 \u2013 until then, it was only known that they were from another country \u2013 and revealed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in on the decision to let them \u201csurvey\u201d the landing station at Baie Jacotet on the southern cost of Mauritius.<\/p>\n

Let us recap what is known so far. On June 30, 2022, Sunny Singh, CEO of Mauritius Telecom, resigned from job he had held for seven years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am unable to continue without compromising my values and that is not an option for me,\u201d he wrote in a letter to employees of the company which provides telephone and internet services.<\/p>\n

Since then, the chief technology officer of MT has also resigned, noting cryptically that he too was \u201cmaking a choice to stand by my values and do the right thing.
\nIn a radio interview, Singh has revealed the reason he quit: Jugnauth had asked him to allow a \u201cthird party\u201d to instal equipment to monitor internet traffic at the landing station.<\/p>\n

The issue was raised by the opposition in parliament on July 5. Jugnauth denied issuing any order to instal equipment \u201cto enable sniffing, interception, monitoring or recording of internet traffic to and from Mauritius.<\/p>\n

\u201d But with the controversy not ending there, he made another statement the next day, little realising the can of worms he was thereby opening:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a security issue, and it was necessary to do this survey in Mauritius. I have personally approached Shri Narendra Modi to send a competent team for this survey. In Mauritius, we don\u2019t have the technicians for this survey, but even if we did, we preferred to go for this Indian team of technicians,\u201d<\/p>\n

As if bringing Modi in as a player in the \u2018survey\u2019 was not bad enough for New Delhi, Jugnauth added further fuel to this fire by saying that Sherry Singh\u2019s lack of cooperation had embarrassed him vis-a-vis India.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat was I supposed to tell Shri Narendra as I was leaving the next day for India\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

Taken together, many in Mauritius reached the obvious conclusion that the request for the internet landing station \u201csurvey\u201d most likely emanated from Modi in the first place. Why else would Jugnauth say Singh had placed him in a difficult position?<\/p>\n

The opposition has now demanded an independent probe, but Jugnauth \u2013 who asked the police to open an investigation into Sherry Singh \u2013 says the constabulary must be allowed to complete its job.<\/p>\n

With public outcry growing, however, the political storm is not going to blow over any time soon. For India, the scandal is a PR disaster with harmful consequences for national security. India has very close security ties with Port Louis.<\/p>\n

India is helping to develop military infrastructure \u2013 officially described as assistance for air and sea connectivity \u2013 at the Agalega Islands about a thousand kilometres north of Mauritius proper.<\/p>\n

One measure of the closeness of ties is the fact that Mauritius\u2019s National Security Advisers, including the incumbent, K. Ilango, have traditionally been retired intelligence and military officers deputed by New Delhi to the sensitive post.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the internet sniffing scandal, this arrangement has now been flagged as a concern in the National Assembly, prompting Jugnauth to accuse the opposition of \u2018India-bashing\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To be perfectly clear, it has not yet been firmly established (1) that an attempt was made to place surveillance equipment at Baie Jacotet and (2) that India is behind this move.<\/p>\n

If indeed the sniffing initiative is India\u2019s \u2013 whether to monitor China or the illicit financial flows of Indian companies which use Mauritius to round-trip or launder money \u2013 the incident points to the dangers of security over-reach.<\/p>\n

Over two-thirds of Mauritius\u2019s population trace their ancestry to India and favour close ties with it. But most would readily draw the line at compromising their privacy or jeopardising relations with other countries.<\/p>\n

After all, the SAFE cable at the landing station runs from Malaysia to South Africa. This also means the Modi government has learned nothing from the huge controversy its use of Pegasus spyware triggered last year.<\/p>\n

This would also raise questions about the use of \u2018sniffing\u2019 and other surveillance tools over the internet traffic of people in India. It is also possible that the surveillance idea is Jugnauth\u2019s.
\nJudging by the bitter domestic political controversy which has broken out, there are certainly many in Mauritius who are prepared to believe their prime minister capable of using such surveillance. But then should India have so readily agreed to assist him in such an enterprise?<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Mauritius<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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