Ex-minister held as spy for Iran

The Israeli physician already had an extraordinary history: former legislator, agriculture expert, government minister and ex-convict imprisoned for having tried to smuggle 32,000 Ecstasy tablets disguised as M&M’s into Israel. On Monday, another entry was added to the record of the convicted Israeli, Gonen Segev, minister of energy and infrastructure in the mid-1990s. Israeli authorities announced that he had been charged with spying for Iran and had been operating as an agent for Iranian intelligence.

Segev, 62, who has been living in Nigeria in recent years, was arrested in May “on suspicion of having aided the enemy in wartime and spied against the state of Israel,” Israeli police and the Shin Bet internal security agency said in a joint statement.