Egypt arrests another "Israeli spy"

AFP reports:

Security forces have arrested an Egyptian on suspicion of spying for Israel, Egypt’s state prosecutor said on Saturday, adding that it has detained him for 15 days for questioning.

Official news agency MENA, which carried the prosecutor’s comments, added that the man is accused of having worked for Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence service.

The suspect “took the initiative in cooperating with Mossad before joining them in 2011,” MENA reported.

Investigations suggested that the suspect had passed “important information about Egypt to Israel,” MENA said, without elaborating.

The evidence?

The accused is an employee in a private firm. He is accused of working for Mossad since 2011, reported Al-Ahram Arabic news website.

He reportedly filed a complaint to general intelligence in 2012 saying that Israel was trying to recruit him for spy work. The complaint is believed by the prosecution to have been filed in order to hide his espionage involvement.

The prosecution further alleges the accused owned spying devices.

His claim, freely given two years ago, that the Mossad had unsuccessfully tried to recruit him -is the proof that the crack Egyptian investigators have that the Mossad must have recruited him!

Given how incompetent Egyptian security was in accusing idiot Ilan Grapel of being a spy, my guess is that this guy has a fascination with espionage, made up the Mossad story to make himself feel like a hero,  meanwhile collecting electronic devices that could be used for spying as part of his hobby, and he bragged a little too much about his "expertise" to someone who doesn't like him that much.