2024-08-19 12:58:01
The state attorney’s office submitted to the court this morning (Monday) an indictment against Aden Debs, 30 years old from Ramat Gan, for contact with a foreign agent from Iran, for whom he performed various tasks, on payment of transferred to him i. cryptocurrency. Debs is accused of, among other things, printing and hanging posters encouraging a military coup, and helping promote a Telegram group whose goal is to recruit more Israeli citizens.
According to the indictment, filed by Attorney General Nathaniel Bojo of the District Attorney’s Office, during the last four months, June to August 2024, the defendant was in contact with an entity acting on behalf of the intelligence agencies in Iran, which contacted him through. the Telegram network. . During the course of the relationship, the agent repeatedly instructed the accused to keep their conversations confidential and to act secretly so as not to be discovered or arrested.
Among other things, Debs is accused of printing and hanging, at the request of the agent, posters throughout the country, encouraging a military coup, and also helped to promote a Telegram group called “Army of the People” which his objective is to establish contact with him. additional residents of Israel for the purpose of recruiting them, taking pictures, sending packages and more. In some cases, the defendant documented the actions for the agent as “proof” of their performance to receive the payment. The agent also ordered the accused to buy a business phone and a dedicated SIM card, buy a wig, gloves and a hat and, at a certain point, delete all correspondence between them.
As of the publication of the article, the Telegram channel called ‘The People’s Army’ still exists, and has 3,386 followers. According to the indictment, Debs bought 2,000 of them from a site to buy followers, to create an impression of a channel with a large number of followers. Three messages appear on the channel, one of which reads: “We have the best country, the Holy Land – we will save it from incompetents like Bibi. Help us! Only we can save this Holy Land. We will send our country back to its glory. The only way to save the country is a military coup.
The ‘People’s Army’ telegram channel set up by an Iranian agent (screenshot)
On the ‘About’ page of the Telegram channel appears a kind of ‘song’ that inspired the military coup: “We will win again, we will fulfill our childhood dreams, we will build our country, together we will singing, long live the holy and beloved land, may the people live long, with victory and faith, may you live Israel, forever in love”.
According to the indictment, Debs made sure to maintain the relationship with the agent for a long time, responding to several requests on behalf of the agent, and even offered on his own initiative to help him in his actions, while receiving different. payments from him from time to time and negotiating with him on what he would receive for a full assignment In total, the defendant received a total of $12,000 in crypto currencies.
In addition, the indictment states that Debs deceived the Iranian agent in some cases, and sent him false documentation as ‘proof’ that he had done the tasks to get the payment on her behalf. For example, Debs took a photo of the signs he posted in the Ramat Gan area and removed them immediately after the photo. In another case, where he was asked to place a doll whose head had been cut off near the residence of a man known as a ‘security officer’, Devs placed a doll with a severed head near his father’s house, photographed it and sent it. to the Iranian agent, claiming that he had put it where it was needed. In another case, Debs was sent to set a car on fire, and sent a video of a burning car that he downloaded from the Internet to an Iranian agent.
Debs also refused several requests from the Iranian agent, including setting fire to a forest, burning vehicles and garbage cans, hanging a large banner that reads “The only way to save the country is a coup.
military” and depositing money in various places in Petah Tikva.
In relation to the above, Devs has been charged with contacting a foreign agent, an offense with a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. The indictment includes an additional charge, for possession of various types of drugs other than for personal use, including MDMA, cocaine, and more.
At the same time as the indictment, the prosecutor’s office filed a request for detention against Debs until the end of the legal proceedings against him. The application claims that “the respondent maintained contact with an intelligence agency of an enemy country, and within the framework of this contact he assisted it in its war against the State of Israel, among other things by documenting, for the agent, posters of the States. provocative and divisive nature when they hung in the Israeli public space, and even by helping to promote a dedicated Telegram group that was activated as a platform to recruit additional agents, the respondent’s dangerousness increases in light of the fact that his actions were carried out in the middle of a war , to mean everything.”
Attorney Shira Nir The woman representing the defendant said in response to the indictment: “This is an indictment that was just filed, I have been with the defendant since the beginning of the investigation, from everything I know from my client’s version, it seems that the things in fact, and they were certainly not against that person and/or the state. The defendant informed the foreign agent, to deceive him in order to extract money from him. being Iranian, for example, when asked to burn a car, the defendant found a video of a car being set on fire on the Internet and sent the video to the Iranian agent, thus alerting him to the relationship, until the foreign agent realized that the accused was cheating on him and that he was really taking money from him and not actually making the requests.
“It is important to note that my client did not harm the security of the state, and as a witness there are requests that he did not agree to comply with. I believe and believe that at the end of the day things will come out. clear, and when revealed the court for all the evidence, he will understand like me that the mountain gave birth to a mouse.”
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