Former British soldier Khalifa was charged with spying for Iran
Former British soldier Daniel Khalifa has been charged with spying for Iran. The broadcasting corporation informs about this BBC at Woolwich Crown Court.
As specified, 23-year-old Khalifa is accused of collecting confidential data on active military personnel of the kingdom for their subsequent transfer to Iran. However, Daniel Khalif himself denies these accusations.
The Khalif began his military service in September 2018. He enlisted in the Royal Corps of Signals after completing the Young Soldier’s Course. Next, the young man was seconded to the 16th Signals Regiment, stationed in Stafford.
According to the prosecution’s representative, lawyer Mark Heywood, in the spring of 2019, Khalif created a contact with an Iranian telephone code. During a police interrogation in 2022, he said that he established communication with a certain Hamed Gashgavi, who was allegedly associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
At the same time, Khalif claimed that he deliberately started a double game in order to then start working for the British intelligence services. The soldier claimed that he used the “Contact Us” section on the website of the UK foreign intelligence service MI6 to express his desire to work as a “double agent”. According to the young man, he conveyed false information to Iran. The Iranian side paid 2 thousand dollars for it.
According to Mark Heywood, Khalif collected information on British military personnel for more than two years.
On October 1, it became known that the German prosecutor’s office had detained a Chinese citizen on suspicion of espionage and working for Chinese intelligence. It was alleged that while working at Leipzig-Halle Airport, she passed information, including the transport of military equipment, to another suspected agent.
In July, a married couple with dual citizenship of Russia and Australia was arrested in Brisbane on suspicion of espionage.
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