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Last month for spying on the state of Israel for Iran began Thursday morning, with Segev seen in public for the first time since he was arrested in May.
Segev, grizzled and dressed in a blue-collar shirt, appeared before the Jerusalem District Court in front of a judge after being accused of espionage, helping an enemy in wartime, and providing information to the enemy.
Gonen Segev arrives in court (Photo: Olivier Fitoussi)
Before the trial, the Shin Bet released new details about the services made by Segev on behalf of the Iranians.
"Segev was drafted and acted as an agent on behalf of the Iranian intelligence services.The investigation showed that in 2012, a link had been established between Segev and officials from the Iranian embbady in Nigeria, after which he twice participated in meetings with his managers in Iran while his identity as intelligence officials was known to him, "said Shin Bet .
"The investigation revealed that Segev has met with his Iranian handlers around the world in hotels and apartments that he supposed to be used for clandestine activities," he continues.
During the investigation, it became clear that Segev transmitted to its managers information relating to the energy sector, security sites in Israel, buildings, persons performing functions diplomacy and security. body.
(Photo: Olivier Fitoussi)
"In order to complete the missions that he has received from his Iranian managers, Segev has made contact with Israeli citizens in the field security and foreign diplomatic circles of Israel." Segev has been working to connect some Israeli citizens with Iranian secret service officials while trying to trick them and present them as innocent businessmen, "accuses the defendant.
Segev's defense teams responded to the charges against their client. "It can already be said, in the first stage, that the publication badigns excessive severity to the issue even though, in the indictment, a different image is formed," said the lawyers.
According to his indictment, a portion of which was declbadified on Wednesday, Gonen "transferred dozens of reports with the intention of harming the security of the state."
The former minister, who had been working for years in Nigeria as a doctor, he is still detained by the police since he was denied entry into Equatorial Guinea. in May 2018 because of his criminal past and therefore transferred to Israel.
The Jerusalem District Court lifted a gag order Wednesday on part of the content of the indictment
which was served against Segev. However, various details were censored because of their sensitivity to the security of the state.
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(Photo: Olivier Fitoussi)
The indictment points out that Segev, who was formerly a member of the Israeli security cabinet, sent Iranians "dozens of reports with
Most details of the indictment remain clbadified, including about fifty articles detailing the cases in which Segev obtained information and performed various badignments.
"In his actions described above, the defendant acted as an Iranian intelligence agent and in the course of his activities he carried out many acts intended to help Iran in its war against Israel" . 19659002]
"The accused also transmitted to the Iranians secret reports in order to harm the security of the state, inter alia, regarding the location of the premises of security officials, the names of security staff and others ".
