An alleged spy for Iran made up 'wiffle waffle' quality reports astir Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and MI6 to impressment his handlers, a tribunal heard yesterday.
Daniel Khalife, 23, allegedly compiled a dossier of fake 'Top secret' documents to provender agents including a study connected the British-Iranian world who was being held astatine the clip successful Iran.
When constabulary arrested the British worker they recovered a bundle of fake quality reports connected a USB instrumentality made to look arsenic if helium had intercepted MI6 directives including a papers by spy main Sir Richard Moore and a missive from Sir Mark Sedwill astatine the UK Security Council.
The erstwhile soldier, present 23, sparked a nationwide manhunt erstwhile helium escaped from Wandsworth Prison past September aft being held connected espionage charges, it was said.
He allegedly absconded utilizing furniture sheets to strap himself to the underside of a nutrient transportation motortruck earlier being captured 3 days aboriginal successful West London.
Daniel Khalife allegedly compiled a dossier of fake 'Top secret' documents astir MI6 and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to provender his handlers, Woolwich Crown Court heard
Khalife , 23, from Kingston, South West London is accused of spending 2 years spying for Iran
Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian academic, was a captive successful Iran for six years earlier she was released successful 2022 pursuing a agelong campaign
Woolwich Crown Court heard connected Thursday however Khalife rang MI5 boasting that helium fooled Iranian quality with his 'wiffle waffle' reports cribbed from Wikileaks.
He said: 'All of it is fabricated. Everything I person told them is fake.
'They support falling for it, I bash not cognize however they person not recovered retired it is fake. It's wiffle waffle taken from Wikileaks.
'They deliberation it's real.'
Khalife told MI5 that helium thought 'oh my deity this is crazy' erstwhile Iran started paying him for his phoney information, handing implicit £1,500 successful a canine poo container astatine a concealed rendezvous successful a parkland successful Barnet, North London, jurors heard.
The supposedly concealed reports were said to beryllium littered with errors, including the incorrect spelling of 'intelligence' and helium besides utilized the incorrect sanction for the Scotland Yard antagonistic coercion unit, jurors heard.
Khalife besides got MI5 and MI6 mixed up erstwhile helium emailed the second asking to beryllium a 'double agent', it was said.
But the soldier, who was fixed an grant aboriginal successful his career, allegedly told his Iranian handlers: 'I'm 1 of the astir intelligent people. I won an award. I americium amended than everybody here. I'm much intelligent than everybody here.'
Mark Heywood, KC, has said Khalife was playing a 'game' of 'double bluff' to fell his existent activities which included compiling a database of SAS soldiers names from a Ministry of Defence computer.
The ex-British Army worker is besides accused of absconding from Wandsworth Prison utilizing a 'makeshift sling made of bedsheets' to strap himself to the underside of a nutrient transportation truck
Khalife had been moving successful the room of HMP Wandsworth (pictured) erstwhile helium allegedly vanished connected September 6, 2023, aft failing to amusement up to assistance a Bidfood transportation driver
He is accused of compiling the names, work number, fertile and units of 15 SAS and SBS soldiers to walk to his handlers.
Khalife denies committing an enactment prejudicial to the interests oregon information of the authorities by collecting accusation that mightiness beryllium utile to an force betwixt 1 May 2019 and 6 January 2022, contrary to the Official Secrets Act 1911.
He denies eliciting oregon attempting to elicit idiosyncratic accusation astir equipped forces unit that was apt to beryllium utile to a idiosyncratic committing oregon preparing an enactment of coercion from a Ministry of Defence medication system.
The suspect besides denies perpetrating a weaponry hoax and escaping prison.
The proceedings continues.
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