Lebanon’s General Security Department on Wednesday arrested five people including two Nepali women on the charge of spying in favor of embassies of the Israel abroad.

General Security Directorate’s media office issued a statement saying that they have arrested a Lebanese, a Palestinian and two Nepali national after monitoring of spying operations in favor of Israel, reported almanar.com

The statement, as reported in the news portal read, “In the context of its monitoring of spying operations in favor of the Israeli enemy, and its work on dismantling similar networks inside Lebanon, and after careful and intensive follow-up, and building on the signal of the relevant public prosecutor, the General Directorate of General Security arrested two Lebanese, one of them born in 1977 and the other in 1982, as well as a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon born in 1992, and two Nepalese women (1991 and 1993) on the offense of spying in favor of embassies of the Israeli enemy abroad.”

The news report further states that investigations also revealed that the arrested two Nepalis were active in recruiting domestic workers, from the Nepalese community in Lebanon, in favor of Israel, through providing them with the phone number of the Israeli Embassy in Nepal to communicate with it and gather for its sake information on their sponsors; information that serve the intelligence service of the Mossad, Israeli intelligence.

As per the report, all of the arrestees confessed to the crime attributed to them during their interrogation and admitted having contacted by phone the embassies of Israel in Turkey, Jordan, Britain and Nepal in order to collaborate with it and provide it with information.

The arrested individuals were referred to the court after their interrogation and work is underway to arrest the rest of the people involved, read the statement.

Published on: 27 January 2017 | The kathmandu Post