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Israel indicts former cabinet minister on Iran spying charges
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jun 18, 2018 07:36pm |
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| Author | Oliver Holmes |
| News Date | Monday, June 18, 2018 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Israel has arrested and indicted a former government minister on charges of spying for Iran, the country’s internal security services have said.
Gonen Segev, who worked as energy and infrastructure minister in the 1990s, “was recruited and acted as an agent on behalf of Iranian intelligence”, police and the Israel Security Agency, better known as the Shin Bet, said in a statement on Monday.
He was detained in May “on suspicion of committing offences of assisting the enemy in war and spying against the state of Israel” and indicted on Friday for multiple charges of “transferring information to the enemy”, the statement said.
It said Segev was first in contact with officials at the Iranian embassy in Nigeria in 2012 and that he twice met Iranian “operators” knowing they were from Iranian intelligence. |
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