MADRID (Reuters) -The Spanish government has dismissed its spy chief Paz Esteban amid a dual phone-hacking scandal involving Pegasus spyware, the defence minister said on Tuesday. The National Intelligence Center (CNI) that Esteban headed has been under fire for reportedly using Pegasus, made by Israel’s NSO Group, to snoop on leaders of the Catalan independence movement. It has also faced questions about its failure to prevent the phones of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and other officials being hacked by an unnamed foreign entity using the same spyware. Announcing Esteban’s dismissal, Defence…