[Jpost] According to media outlets in Spain, police suspect 3 of infiltrating an NGO that helps asylum seekers, sending information to Iran.| Those Iranians sure do keep themselves busy.. |
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
three people in Madrid and Torrelavaga on suspicion of involvement in a network spying on dissidents of the Iranian regime, the Spanish media reported Friday.
According to a blurb from the Spanish police cited by media outlets, the suspects allegedly infiltrated a Spanish NGO that aids asylum seekers, and communicated to the Iranian secret services the identities of people who fled the country for ideological reasons. The police suspected the three of violating the confidentiality of data and information of Iranians who fled the Islamic Theocratic
Republicand expressed interest in seeking asylum in Spain.
The police reportedly believed the three to be members of a spy network allegedly controlled by the Iranian intelligence services from the seat of its own embassy in Madrid.
The aim of the network was allegedly to monitor, pursue and even threaten countrymen living in Spain, considered to be dissidents of the Iranian regime.
Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported that a Spanish citizien working for an NGO in Torrelavega recommended that a specific interpreter aid the asylum seekers, but that interpreter was in fact a spy who passed along personal information of all those that he helped.
The three people jugged
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
in Madrid include: the NGO's legal adviser, the interpreter and an embassy employ