Report: Member of Mossad ring in Turkey met Israeli agents in Zurich

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One of the people Turkey arrested for allegedly spying for Israel had met twice with Mossad agents in Zurich, the Turkish news website Sabah reported Friday.

On Thursday, Sabah reported that 15 suspects were arrested a month ago for providing the Mossad with information on Turkish citizens and foreign students who study in the country.

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Later on Thursday, the Palestinian news agency Shehab reported that seven of the people arrested were Palestinian intelligence agents.

Sabah, a Turkish pro-government website, reported that the suspects used encrypted emails and a software that generated fake phone numbers to communicate with Mossad agents.

It has also been reported that the suspects received payments via international money transfer services as well as Bitcoin payments.

According to the report, most of the funds were transferred through realtors who used jewelry stores and merchants in the market as major means of activity.

One of the detainees reportedly holds an Israeli passport and has received payment of ten thousand dollars for the information he provided over the past year.

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According to Turkish media, most of the detainees are Palestinians, and the purpose of the spy ring was to gather information about local and foreign students studying in the country, and especially about those who may work in the defense industry in the future.

Since the beginning of September, these seven Palestinian suspects had disappeared one after the other, and their families lost contact with them, according to Arab media reports at the time.

The Palestinian Authority had informed the families of those missing that it was in touch with Turkish authorities to locate their relatives, and that a special Turkish-Palestinian task force had been set up to investigate the affair.

Four of the seven missing were from Gaza, and three from the West Bank. One of the seven is a woman.