(European Conservative) The revelation that a 64-year-old Arabic translator and senior counterterrorism official within the Dutch intelligence services has been potentially leaking sensitive information to Morocco is causing a political storm in the Netherlands in the latest espionage scandal involving the North African nation in Europe.
According to Dutch media reports, a counterterrorism operative known as “Abderrahim El M.” was arrested in Rotterdam this week alongside a 35-year-old policewoman and former intelligence official after long-running claims that they were supplying state secrets to Morocco.
Both suspects were involved with the Netherlands’ National Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism and Security (NCTV), the country’s primary counterterrorism unit for dealing with Islamic extremism.
