It was allowed to be published that 7 Jewish Israelis acted as Iranian agents during the war. The Prosecutor's Office: This is one of the most serious cases investigated in recent years
The Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court allowed publication that today the state attorney's office filed a prosecutor's statement against seven Jewish suspects, residents of Haifa and the north, including an AWOL soldier and two minors, the suspects who were operated by Iranian agents and performed various tasks for their operators.
Among other things, they are suspected of photography and collecting information on IDF military bases and facilities, including the air force bases in Navatim and Ramat David, the IDF HQ compound in Tel Aviv, the Iron Dome battery sites, and more. They also received maps of strategic sites from the operators, including the Golani base.
The suspects are Aziz Nisanov, Alexander Sedikov, Yigal Nisan, Vychaslav Goshchin, Yevgeny Yufa and two minors whose names cannot be published. On Friday, the prosecutor's office is expected to submit an indictment against them to the District Court in Haifa for a series of serious security offenses.
The State Attorney's Office emphasizes that this is one of the most serious cases investigated in recent years. The case has been closely monitored for several weeks now by the head of the security team at the Haifa district attorney's office, attorney Shelly Barzilai-Zavi and attorney Einav Itsko Gold, as well as the deputy state attorney for special duties, Alon Altman.
According to the facts that can be revealed at this stage, the investigation by the police and the Shin Bet revealed that for over two years, the suspects have carried out a series of different tasks for an infrastructure of Iranian intelligence agencies, which operated to recruit Israeli citizens, and this under the direction of two Iranian agents with whom they were in contact.
The actions of the suspects were carried out for a total payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars, which was carried out, among other things, using cryptocurrency.
Some of the suspects have been active for about two years, and all of them were active in carrying out tasks for the Iranian agents even during the war that the State of Israel is waging on several fronts.
The activity, in which the suspects carried out hundreds of tasks, included photographing various sites in Israel, including military bases and performing other tasks related to gathering information.
As mentioned, the prosecutor's office intends to file an indictment on Friday against the seven suspects and request that they be arrested until the end of the proceedings.
It should be emphasized that this serious case joins a series of cases that have been revealed in recent weeks, some of which have been filed with indictments and requests for detention until the end of the proceedings, and some of which will be filed in the near future, as part of an uncompromising fight waged by the State Attorney's Office against those who seek to harm the security of the state.