Egyptian expert charged with spying  

Press TV 

Egyptian authorities said they have arrested an Egyptian engineer from the country's nuclear energy agency on charges of spying for Israel.  

State security prosecutor Hisham Badawi announced that two foreigners, one Japanese and one Irish, were wanted in connection with the case but remained at large.  

He identified the Egyptian engineer as Mohammed Sayed Saber. "Saber stole important and classified documents from the Egyptian Atomic Energy Agency and passed it on to agents of Israel's Mossad intelligence service in return for US$17,000. Saber first met the two foreigners in Hong Kong between 2004 and 2006," Badawi said.  

Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Energy, Hassan Yunis, had said earlier that Egypt could have an operational nuclear power plant within 10 years.  

The plan is to build a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant at Al-Dabaa on the Mediterranean coast.


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