Ex-Israeli minister charged with ‘spying for Iran’
Tehran (KNA) - A former Israeli energy minister has been charged with “passing information” to Iran and engaging in acts of “espionage” against the Tel Aviv regime.
The regime's internal spying apparatus Shin Bet said on Monday that Gonen Segev, who held the portfolio for the minister of energy and infrastructure from 1995 to 1996, had been charged with the offenses four days before, Reuters said.
Segev, also a physician and former Knesset member, stands accused of the "offenses of passing information to the enemy in time of war and espionage" against Israel, Shin Bet said.
"An investigation by the Shin Bet and the police found that Segev was recruited and acted as an agent on behalf of Iranian intelligence," it noted in a statement.Segev was jailed in Israel in 2004 for five years over attempts to smuggle 30,000 Ecstasy pills from the Netherlands into Israel.
Upon his release, Segev, who had his medical license revoked, went to Nigeria, where he ran a clinic serving ambassadors.
He allegedly had his first contacts with Iranian embassy officials in Nigeria in 2012.The Shin Bet statement claimed Segev later visited the Islamic Republic for meetings with his intelligence "handlers."
"Segev gave his handlers information related to the energy market, security sites in Israel, buildings and officials in political and security bodies, and more," it added.
Source: pressTV