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Shafaq News
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Shafaq News
Justice for Feyli Kurds: Dracula of the Baath sentenced to death
Shafaq News/ Iraq handed down two death sentences on Thursday, including one against a former Saddam-era intelligence officer accused of leading brutal campaigns. A security source told Shafaq News that Iraq's High Criminal Court sentenced Khairallah Hammadi Abdullah Jaro al-Naseri, a top Baathist official known for overseeing repression against Feyli Kurds, to death by hanging after being captured by the National Security Service earlier this year. He reportedly confessed, in the presence of victims' families, to directing executions, forced disappearances, torture, and mass burials. Dubbed 'the Dracula of the Baath,' al-Naseri operated across Baghdad and the Kurdistan Region and was long considered one of the regime's most brutal enforcers. His conviction is seen as a 'major milestone' in Iraq's pursuit of the so-called ' Group of Five '—a list of key Baathist fugitives. Separately, the Criminal Court in Najaf handed a double death sentence to an ISIS fighter convicted of killing two police officers, injuring others during interrogation, and torching civilian vehicles to incite fear and destabilize the province, the Supreme Judicial Council stated.
Budapest Times
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Budapest Times
National Security Service identifies more Ukrainian spies
Máté Kocsis, ruling Fidesz's parliamentary group leader, said the National Security Service have identified more Ukrainian spies, including Roland Tseber as an 'illegal' officer of the Ukrainian intelligence service, and István Holló, who is under investigation by the National Office of Investigation on suspicion of espionage activities. After a meeting of the national security committee on Tuesday, Kocsis told a press conference that Tseber, as an 'illegal' officer, had probably been actively building relations with members of the Hungarian opposition for a long time. Kocsis added that Tseber had met several leading politicians and senior officials of parliamentary parties as part of his activities in Hungary. In the meantime, Holló's activities in Hungary involved active intelligence activities to learn about Hungary's army and energy systems in cooperation with Ukrainian military intelligence, Kocsis said. He added that Tseber was earlier a dual Ukrainian-Hungarian citizen, but he returned his Hungarian citizenship in 2017. He has built a political career in Ukraine, including as a representative of the Transcarpathian County Council, Kocsis said. Tseber had been on the radar of the Hungarian national security authorities for years, and he was banned from entering and staying in Hungary due to his intensifying activities in 2024, he added. Holló, who had also been on the radar of Hungarian counterintelligence for a long time, is a Ukrainian citizen who had never held Hungarian citizenship, Kocsis said. He has been involved in activities to influence Hungary's international reputation in a negative way and aimed to make the Hungarian government change its position concerning Ukraine with the help of external pressure, he added. In response to a question about the transparency law, Kocsis said the aim was to prevent, for instance, the disinformation campaigns that are currently underway from Ukraine, and to protect the Hungarian public space from foreign secret services and foreign state interests.
Shafaq News
01-05-2025
- Shafaq News
Drug network busted in Nineveh
Shafaq News/ A major drug trafficking network in Nineveh province was dismantled, Iraq's National Security Service (INSS) announced on Wednesday. In a statement, the INSS explained that the operation led to the arrest of seven suspects in possession of 150,000 Captagon pills and 2 kilograms of crystal meth. 'The suspects were caught in the act during a handover of the narcotics,' the statement added. In a separate raid, also in Nineveh, security forces detained three additional suspects and seized two kilograms of crystal meth in their possession.
Shafaq News
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Shafaq News
Massive voter card fraud attempt busted in Iraq's Nineveh
Shafaq News/ On Tuesday, the National Security Service arrested a suspect in Nineveh province for trafficking voter cards, according to Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council. Authorities seized 1,147 voter cards and 20 million Iraqi dinars (about $15K) in cash from the suspect at the time of detention. The individual admitted to collaborating with others to collect voter cards from multiple areas in Nineveh to sell them to candidates at inflated prices ahead of the elections. Legal proceedings have been initiated under Article 40 of the amended Parliamentary and Provincial Elections Law No. 12 of 2018, which criminalizes the sale, purchase, or misuse of voter identification cards.
Shafaq News
15-04-2025
- Shafaq News
Iraq nabs top terror suspects in Diyala
Shafaq News/ Iraqi security forces arrested three high-risk individuals wanted under the country's anti-terrorism law during a joint operation in Diyala province, the local police chief said on Tuesday. Lieutenant General Mohammed Kazem Atiya, commander of Diyala Police, stated that the arrests were carried out in a coordinated operation involving the National Security Service and local police units, based on precise intelligence. The suspects were detained under Article 4 of Iraq's Anti-Terrorism Law. Authorities have taken legal action and referred them to the judiciary, the statement added.
