By IRNA,
Berlin : Poland has extradited alleged Mossad operative, Uri Brodsky, to Germany, where he is wanted for his logistic role in the Dubai slaying of a Hamas official in January, news reports said here on Thursday.
A Warsaw appeals court upheld last week an earlier verdict that Brodsky, an Israeli citizen, should be extradited to Germany on forgery charges but not for spying.
The ruling means Brodsky can be tried in Germany for forgery but not for espionage.
Brodsky could be imprisoned up to three years, if convicted.
Israel had reportedly pressured the Polish government to prevent the extradition of the Mossad operative to Germany, which had issued a European arrest warrant on Brodsky.
Germany filed for the suspect’s extradition after he was arrested at Warsaw airport on June 4.
The suspect’s arrest was not for taking part in the Dubai murder but for aiding another agent to obtain a German passport fraudulently in the spring of 2009.
The passport had been used by a member of the Mossad death squad to enter Dubai for the killing of the Hamas official.
Mossad death squads have in the past used German passports for secret operations although some of them had been forged, according to press reports.
Germany and Israel have a very deep and comprehensive military and intelligence cooperation whose details remain highly secretive to the German public.