Judge lifts gag order on names of brothers charged last month in Iran spy case |
Meir and Yosef Nahum were named on Sunday as two brothers from the Jerusalem area who were indicted last month for handing fake, AI-generated information to Iranian agents in exchange for over NIS 100,000 ($32,000).
Their names were initially kept under a gag order until Sunday, when Supreme Court Justice Alex Stein accepted a request by the Walla news site and the Kan public broadcaster to allow their identities to be made public.
The brothers were arrested in January and were charged in the Jerusalem District Court with contact with a foreign agent, passing intelligence to the enemy, and impersonating an individual.
According to the indictment, the brothers received more than NIS 100,000 ($32,000) from several Iranian operatives while fully aware they were interacting with hostile actors.
They made extensive use of artificial intelligence to create fake maps and military reports, and even posed as an IDF intelligence officer in Unit 8200, prosecutors wrote.
West Bank District police investigators worked with the Shin Bet to probe the suspicions and completed the joint investigation last month.
“While some of the information that was transferred was not necessarily credible, it still had the potential to be used by the hostile actor,” police said.
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