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December 22, 2011

The Daily Star - Alfa employee sentenced to 7 years in jail for spying, December 22nd 2011


BEIRUT: A telecoms employee at the country’s Alfa mobile phone network was sentenced Wednesday to seven years of hard labor in prison for collaborating with Israel. 

Charbel Qazzi, a technician at Alfa, was found guilty by Judge Nizar Khalil of collaborating with Israel and providing Mossad agents with information on the company where he was employed. 

According to the verdict, Qazzi confessed that in September 2006, he received a phone call from Mossad agents who asked him to travel to France.

The next year, Qazzi traveled to France where he provided Mossad with information on telecommunications in Lebanon including maps of telecoms networks, names of Alfa employees and a file on Lebanese telephone exchange centers, the verdict said. Qazzi was arrested last year during a probe into a suspected network of Israeli spies. 


http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2011/Dec-22/157624-alfa-employee-sentenced-to-7-years-in-jail-for-spying.ashx#axzz1k6wYgero

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