Attorney-general Abdel Meguid Mahmoud on Monday referred three suspects, including two Israelis and one Egyptian, for immediate trial before the Supreme State Security Court over charges of spying for Israel and harming Egyptian national interests. The suspects are Tareq Abdel Razeq Hussein Hassan, 37, the owner of an export-import company, and Idi Moshe and Joseph Demore, both Israelis who will be tried in absentia. The court said the three suspects spied for Israel between May 2008 and August 2010. The prosecution said Hussein Hassan, while overseas, agreed with the Israeli suspects to work for Israel's Mossad and to provide information about Egyptian officials working in the field of communications, in order to pick out potential collaborators. The prosecution also said Hussein Hassan carried out an act of aggression against Syria and Lebanon that threatened to sever diplomatic relations between the two countries. He is alleged to have agreed to provide reports and information about some Lebanese and Syrian figures.
