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The Geneva-based secret service company Alp Services is said to have spied on thousands of people across Europe between 2017 and 2021 and passed their names on to its client, the United Arab Emirates. The alleged crime of the people in the application: connections to the rival state of Qatar and to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is classified as radical Islamist. This is reported by the West Swiss news portal Heidi News, the West Swiss television channel RTS and the German news magazine “Der Spiegel” – based on the French research portal Mediapart.
The Geneva-based company may have violated Article 272 of the Swiss Penal Code, which regulates the “prohibited foreign intelligence service”.
The machinations were revealed by an anonymous hacker group. In 2021, she stole three terabytes of data from Alp Services’ servers and sent it to Mediapart.
In Switzerland, for example, the snooping hit Vaud-born Pascal Gemperli. He is, among other things, a politician of the Green Party and Secretary General of the Vaud Union of Muslim Associations (UVAM). “He seems to know a lot about the Muslim Brotherhood […], but we can’t assume he is,” reads a 2019 entry in his file. “I am absolutely appalled that I appear in a document like this that potentially links me to terrorism,” says Gemperli. “Of course I have nothing to do with the Muslim Brotherhood.”
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Hazim Nada, now 40, was worse off, reports The New Yorker. The American with Egyptian and Syrian roots ran a thriving business in Lugano that traded in crude oil and dry goods such as cement. The suspicion against Nada, who studies theoretical physics and, according to the “New Yorker”, has a soft spot for nineties hip-hop: his father.
Youssef Nada joined the Muslim Brotherhood in 1947 as a teenager and later rose to become a banker. After being placed on the United Nations’ controversial terrorist list for allegedly funding the al-Qaeda network, he spent seven years under house arrest at his villa in Campione d’Italia under UN sanctions. His accounts were frozen, his financial institution went bankrupt. The allegations of money laundering and financing Al Qaeda have never been substantiated. In 2009 he was removed from the terror list. The observer had also reported on it.
Today, Hazim Nada’s company is also bankrupt. She fell victim to a campaign accusing him of being close to the Muslim Brotherhood, which was also allegedly organized by Alp Services. According to the “New Yorker”, several media outlets were also involved, including the British daily “Times” and the French-language Swiss daily “Le Temps”.
The presumption of innocence applies to all involved. Alp Services declined to comment when asked.
Source:Blick
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