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Gonen Segev has been arrested on suspicion of espionage
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Segev is accused of spying for Iran
Tuesday, June 19, 2018 –
7:00am
A former Israeli cabinet minister has been arrested on suspicion
of spying for Iran, according to Israel’s Shin Bet security
agency.
Gonen Segev, 62, who served as energy and infrastructure
minister in the 1990s, was “recruited and acted as an agent on
behalf of Iranian intelligence”, Shin Bet says.
The agency alleges that Segev gave information “connected to the
energy market and security sites in Israel including buildings and
officials in political and security organisations”.
Segev has denied he was working out of “ideological or financial
motivation”, reports The Times of Israel, and claimed he was
“instead trying to act as a double-agent and spy on the
Iranians”.
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He was reportedly arrested while attempting to travel to
Equatorial Guinea in May, and has been in custody since.
Segev, who is also a doctor, 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”, Al Jazeera reports.
He was released from prison in 2007, before moving to west
Africa.
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