Israel has indicted Gonen Segev, a former energy minister, on suspicion of spying for Iran. According to Reuters, Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service issued a statement on Monday claiming he “was recruited by Iranian intelligence and served as an agent”. Officials in Tehran have not yet reacted to the report. The Shin Bet said […]
Israel has indicted Gonen Segev, a former energy minister, on suspicion of spying for Iran.
According to Reuters, Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service issued a statement on Monday claiming he “was recruited by Iranian intelligence and served as an agent”.
Officials in Tehran have not yet reacted to the report.
The Shin Bet said Segev was arrested during a visit to Equatorial Guinea in May and extradited to Israel, where he is being detained. He was indicted on Friday.
The statement said that he supplied Iran with “information related to the energy sector, security sites in Israel and officials in political and security institutions”.
Segev, a physician, was charged in 2004 with trying to smuggle 30,000 ecstasy tablets into Israel from the Netherlands, using a diplomatic passport with a falsified expiry date, Aljazeera reported.
The following year he admitted the charges as part of a plea bargain agreement.
According to Press TV, Ha’aretz published an opinion piece addressing the issue under the title, “Enlisting a former Israeli minister is a victory for Iranian intelligence.”
“For Iranian intelligence, the recruitment of a former cabinet minister and Knesset member like Gonen Segev as an agent would have been a significant achievement,” the newspaper said.
