Tel Aviv – Israel Police and the Shin Bet on Thursday indicted an Israeli citizen living in Argentina for allegedly attempting to spy on Israel on behalf of Iran.
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Mauricio Segel, who is a resident of Argentina, was arrested three weeks ago. He has been indicted on charges of holding contact with a foreign agent.
According to the indictment, Segel went to Tehran’s embassy in Argentina in 2006 and offered to help Iranian nationals gain access to Israeli documents.
The defendant allegedly supplied the Iranians with his own passport and identification card and offered to provide more information in return for money.
Segel was arrested by officials from the Shin Bet and the police’s international crimes unit upon landing in Israel three weeks ago.
Last May, an Israeli man born in Iran was arrested for allegedly supplying intelligence information to Tehran intelligence in 2006.
According to the Israeli investigation, the defendant supplied Iran with names of he knew apparently working for the defense establishment.
pretty, pretty bad-but what happens to (Arab) members of the Israeli government who make “illegal” contacts with state enemies and terror organizations………I would guess little or nothing.
lock him up for life!
it’s unbeleivable what people would do for some $$. i guess people are experiencing difficult financial times and they’re desperate for assistance.
dreikup – are you condoning this kind of behavoir?!?!?!
There are arab terrorists sitting in the israely knesset, and openly giving over stuff to the terrorists in azza as well as in Yehuda and shomron, with not a word from anybody. why suddenly the fuss?
I doubt they will behead him the way Iran did to the supposed spy they caught.