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Egypt
jails official over spying for Israel
Iran Press TV
Sun Dec 21, 2014 3:55PM
GMT
An Egyptian court has
sentenced a shipping services manager at the Suez Canal to 10 years in prison
on charges of spying for the Israeli regime.
On Saturday, the court
in the canal city of Port Said convicted Mohamed Ali Abdel Baki of passing
information on to Tel Aviv about the naval movements of Egyptian and foreign
warships through the strategic waterway between 2011 and 2013.
Baki was also accused of
providing information to two Israeli handlers about Port Said and its
management.
The court further handed
down life sentences in absentia to Benjamin Shaul and David Meir, who were
found guilty of serving as the Egyptian official's handlers.
Baki had first made
contact with the Israeli security services on the Internet in 2011 and met the
two Israeli handlers in Bangkok, Thailand, the following year.
In June 2011, Egypt
arrested Ilan Grapel, a US-Israeli, on charges of working for Israel's spy
agency, Mossad, and sowing sectarian strife in the North African country.
However, he was released
four months later under a prisoner swap deal that saw Israel free 25 Egyptian
prisoners.
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