Israel’s internal security
service has indicted one of the country’s former cabinet minister on suspicion
of spying for Iran.
In a statement on Monday, the
Shin Bet security service said Gonen Segev, energy minister from 1995 to 1996,
“was recruited by Iranian intelligence and served as an agent”.
According to Reuters, the
security service said Segev “had been living in Nigeria” and was discovered to
have made contact with officials at the Iranian embassy in Nigeria in 2012.
Segev, who was jailed in Israel
in 2004 after being convicted of attempting to smuggle Ecstasy pills, left the
country in 2007.
The former minister, who “visited
Iran twice for meetings with his handlers”, reportedly received an encrypted
communications system from Iranian agents.
He was said to have supplied Iran
with “information related to the energy sector, security sites in Israel and
officials in political and security institutions.”
The Shin Bet added that the
former Israeli minister linked some Israelis involved in the country’s security
sector with Iranian intelligence agents, introducing the Iranians as
businessmen.
However, Segev’s attorneys were
quoted as saying in a statement that most of the information regarding the
indictment remained a secret, as requested by the state.
“Even at this early stage it can
be said that the permitted publication attributes extreme gravity to the
events, even though within the indictment, of which the full details remain
confidential, a different picture is painted,” the statement read.
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