Interpreter accused of leaking information to terrorists

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In their fight against terrorism governments collect huge amounts of data such as telephone conversations, emails, radio and television broadcasts. All these documents could become valuable information when it comes to tracking down or bringing to trial suspected terrorists.

However advanced modern technology might be by now, when it comes to the translation of crucial data governments and courts still have to rely on human linguists - and those might possibly be subject to infidelity.

The interpreter Outman Ben A. was employed by the Dutch security service AIVD to transcribe tapped telephone conversations and is now accused of leaking information related to an investigation to suspected terrorists of the Hofstadgroep in 2004, Expatica informs.

One of the Hofstadgroep members' is said to be Mohammed B. who shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh. Also Ben A. is accused of informing a person of the Dutch-Moroccan education group UMAH about another person's bugged phone. "The prosecution claimed that the information allegedly leaked by Ben A. was widely circulated among people viewed by the AIVD as suspects," writes Expatica.

Outman Ben A. denies the charges.

Source: Expatica