BERLIN: A Pakistani man was convicted in Germany on Monday of spying for Iran to search out potential attack targets for the Revolutionary Guards.
The defendant, 31-year-old Mustufa Haidar Syed-Naqfi, was sentenced to four years and three months in prison “for working for a foreign intelligence service”, a spokeswoman for Berlin’s superior court said.
The court found that he spied “against Germany and another NATO member”, France, for the Quds Force, the foreign operations wing of the elite Revolutionary Guards. Mustufa Haidar compiled dossiers on possible attack targets – a German lawmaker who is the former head of a German-Israeli organisation, and a French-Israeli economics professor. Investigators found detailed dossiers on the men and their daily routines, with hundreds of photos and video clips. The court heard they detailed the targets’ homes and workplaces, various access routes to them, as well as information on security guards, surveillance cameras and nearby police stations.
