Turkish police arrest Kosovan man identified as head of Mossad financial network

Turkish security forces have identified and arrested a Kosovar national on charges of managing the financial network of Mossad in the country and transferring money on behalf of the Israeli spy agency. 

The Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) said in a statement that Liridon Rexhepi was a “financier for the Israeli intelligence”, and was sending money to informants who “were filming with drones, conducting psychological warfare against Palestinian politicians and collecting information about the situation in Syria.”

Turkish security sources said on Tuesday that MIT started following Rexhepi when he entered Turkey on August 25, and that Istanbul’s Counterterrorism Police detained him on August 30.

Rexhepi admitted to making cash transfers to informants via Western Union, a financial services corporation, and was sent to prison pending a court appearance, they said.

MIT said that Mossad has been sending money to its spies in Turkey from Eastern European countries, especially Kosovo. Some of the funds were transferred to informants in Syria.

They also used cryptocurrencies, according to the Turkish sources.

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Last December, director of Israel's so-called internal security service, Shin Bet, said his organization was prepared to target Hamas anywhere, including in Lebanon, Turkey and Qatar.

Turkish authorities warned Israel of “serious consequences” if it tries to hunt down members of the Palestinian resistance group living outside Palestinian territories, including in Turkey.

Since January, Turkish officials have detained dozens of people, among them private investigators, on charges of collecting data on individuals, mostly Palestinians residing in Turkey, for Mossad.

Back in February, Turkish police arrested seven people on suspicion of selling information to Mossad through private detectives.

Seven more people, including a private detective, were arrested in March — also for selling information to Mossad. Another two were arrested in April.

Turkey halted all trade with Israel in May and it filed a request with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague in August to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over the war on Gaza.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been one of the strongest and vocal critics of Israel’s bloody onslaught against Gaza on the international stage, and has praised Hamas for fighting against occupation.

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