MADRID 28 Nov. () –
A United Kingdom court this Thursday convicted former military man Daniel Khalife, accused of working as a spy in the service of Iran and who escaped from a London prison in September of last year, in an escape attempt that lasted just three days.
Justice has considered it proven that Khalife, who is now 23 years old, collected information that he later transmitted to Tehran, for example from members of the United Kingdom special forces. The final sentence will be known in early 2025, but Judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb has already announced that it will be “long.”
He is accused of violating the Official Secrets Act and the Anti-Terrorism Act, although the British authorities do not have exact evidence of the data he was able to pass on to his Iranian contacts, with whom he began speaking shortly after joining the Armed Forces. from the United Kingdom.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, Khalife began to build a relationship with his sources with the aim of becoming a kind of double agent. The defense, on the other hand, has argued that it was more of a utopian ambition than a feasible goal and that his movements were more typical of Scooby-Doo than James Bond, according to the BBC.
The defendant also stated during the trial that he never sent the list of soldiers’ names that he had supposedly collected and that the information he did send was mostly false.
His case became especially popular when he managed to escape from prison on the underside of a truck, in a case that also led to criticism of the prison surveillance system. The disappearance was resolved in 75 hours, when the authorities located the fugitive riding a bicycle on the banks of a canal.
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