Ilan Grapel, the Jewish American citizen detained in Egypt under suspicion of espionage for Israel, was brought before Egypt's public prosecutor under heavy security on Wednesday.
Grapel, who continued to deny claims that he has ties to Mossad, will be investigated along with six other people who have alleged links to him, according to a Channel 10 report.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Channel 10 news on Wednesday evening that the allegations against Grapel were "unfounded."
"In my opinion Egypt knows this," he said.
snip* Al-Ahram reported on Tuesday that Grapel planned to get from Egypt to a rebel hub in Eastern Libya. The Egyptian paper reported that the Egyptian prosecution is claiming that Grapel met with a group of people, some of whom were European, in southern Egypt before traveling to Cairo on the day of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's resignation.
A former paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces with dual American-Israeli citizenship, Grapel reportedly travelled to several parts of Egypt, and was given the task of gauging the public's reaction to the policies of the Egyptian high military council.
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