Port Said State Security Court on Sunday held the second hearing of the espionage case in which Mohamed Abdel Baky, a director of a navigation company, and others, including two fugitive officers of the Israeli Mossad intelligence service, are accused.
The defendants are charged with spying for Israel and collaborating with the Iranian army and the Lebanese Hezbollah.
The man allegedly began contact with Israeli intelligence via the Internet in the latter half of 2011, sending messages claiming he possessed classified information and leaving his email address and telephone number.
The Egyptian individual reportedly met with Shaul in the Israeli embassy in Thailand on 16 March 2012 and handed him information about Iranian ships, as well as Egyptian and foreign warships, passing through the Suez Canal, along with containers suspected of carrying weapons, military equipment and hazardous materials.
He stands accused of meeting with Mossad agents again between 2 and 5 December 2012 in the Israeli embassy in the Philippines and giving them detailed information about Egyptian naval troops in Port Said.
He was instructed to provide more information about ports in Damietta, Arish, Suez and Alexandria, and was given a secret code to use.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
