(Dutch News) An Iranian software engineer who was accused of developing spyware and banned from the European Union for 20 years should not have been deported from the Netherlands, judges have ruled.
Security services said the man, named in court papers as “Amir,” was questioned a year after he arrived in the Netherlands about his relationship with MuddyWater, an Iranian hacking group that infiltrates governments and businesses in the Middle East.
Amir denied working with the group, but two weeks later he was served a deportation notice by the immigration service IND, which had concluded he had developed hacking software for MuddyWater.
