(Deutsche Welle) A former Afghan translator to the German military has been handed six years and 10 months in prison after being charged with treason for selling secrets to the Iranian secret service.
The Koblenz court also found his wife, Asiea S., guilty of aiding and abetting her husband’s actions and handed a 10-month suspended sentence.
As a civil servant of the military, Abdul S. had “abused his position of responsibility” and committed a “particularly serious case of treason,” the ntv television channel reported.
Treason usually means a sentence of at least 15 years in Germany, but the judges took into account that both defendants had confessed to their crimes and had no previous convictions, the court said.
