Former Israeli cabinet minister Gonen
Segev is to be jailed for 11 years after
he admitted spying for Iran, Israel's
justice ministry says.
Segev, who served as energy minister
in the 1990s, was allegedly recruited
while working as a doctor in Nigeria.
He was accused of leaking details
about Israeli officials and security sites.
Segev was detained in Equatorial
Guinea in May and extradited to Israel.
He pleaded guilty to serious espionage
as part of a deal with prosecutors.
The 63-year-old will be formally
sentenced at a hearing on 11 February.
There was no immediate comment
from the Iranian authorities.
Ever since the Islamic Revolution in
1979, when religious hardliners came
to power, Iran's leaders have called for
Israel's elimination. Iran rejects Israel's
right to exist, considering it an
illegitimate occupier of Muslim land.
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In 2005, Segev was given a five-year
prison sentence after being convicted
of trying to smuggle 30,000 ecstasy
pills from the Netherlands to Israel
using a diplomatic passport with a
falsified expiry date.
He also had his licence to practice
medicine revoked, but he was allowed
to work as a doctor in Nigeria when he
moved there after his release from jail
in 2007.
Israel's internal security service, Shin
Bet, said in June that Segev had
confessed to making contact with
Iranian embassy officials in Nigeria in
2012 and visiting Iran twice to meet his
handlers.
He was allegedly given a classified
communications system to send coded
messages and passed on "information
related to the energy sector, security
sites in Israel and officials in political
and security institutions".
While Segev admitted to the charge of
espionage, he reportedly told
investigators that he had been trying to
"fool the Iranians and come back to
Israel a hero" .
An initial charge of "assisting an enemy
during a time of war" was removed
from his indictment as part of his plea
bargain.
Further details of the case remain
under a gag order.
"The district attorney's office wants to
reveal more details about the affair,
and once it's out, it will be clear that
Segev indeed had contacts with
Iranians, but not to aid them," Segev's
legal team told the newspaper Yedioth
Ahronoth .
"That is why the treason charge was
removed from the amended
indictment."


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money is the root of all evil.
it should have been death sentence for that bastard

May God continue to protect Israel , amen.

GavelSlam:
Likely affiliated with terrorism.

o yes