A policeman is facing ten years in prison for passing state secrets to Iran in return for cheap medical care at an Iranian hospital in Dubai.
The 43-year-old police sergeant has been found guilty of supplying Iranian spies with intelligence on police and high-ranking officials in Dubai.
The man known only A.R.B also provided Iranian agents with information on Dubai police uniforms, and the names, phone numbers and licence plate numbers of Dubai police, and whether they were Shi’ite or Sunni Muslims, a prosecutor told the State Security Court at the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi.
A prosecutor said in court: “The defendant has communicated with high-ranking officials in the Iranian consulate to provide then with sensitive information. Then he asked the Vice-Consul for a health card that enables him to benefit from discounts when receiving medical treatment at the Iranian Hospital in Dubai.
“After that and starting from 2010, he started to head to the Consulate to finish paperwork for his friend’s wife who is also of Iranian origin. That is when the defendant began to provide investigation officials at the consulate with information pertaining to the police, government officials and others working in security positions at the Dubai Police.”
The Strategy Page website also said of the Iranian regime’s recruiting spy in UAE: “This was all done in such a way that the policeman could feel he was not spying but simply returning a favor to Iranian diplomats who had helped him out with a family medical crises.”
“The fact that the Iranians were seeking the identities of Shi’ite policemen was disturbing as the Iranians have been known to aid or instigate Shia Arabs to do things that benefit Iran, often at the expense of the local Arab government,” it added.
Abu Dhabi Judge Falah Al Hajeri has adjourned the case until February 9.
The Iranian regime is known to use front organizations and foundations, including schools and hospitals, in the region to spy on those countries and export terrorism and fundamentalism.
The Washington Post reported in 2013 how Iranian regime diplomats lured young people in Latin America into attending classes in Iran supervised by Moshen Rabbani, former cultural attache in the Iranian Embassy in Buenos Aires, who is among the Iranian regime’s officials charged with terrorism based on the investigation by the late Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman.