Former Israeli minister Gonen Segev was convicted  Wednesday of espionage in favor of Iran, the Jerusalem Post reported.

According to the source, Segev's lawyers and the prosecution managed to conclude a plea bargain, thus ex-minister should be sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Segev, who was working in the movement in 90s, was detained amid allegations of spying for Iran in June 2018. He was arrested when he flew from Nigeria to Equatorial Guinea, but was sent home on the basis of the Israeli police's warrant.

Gonen Segev was a Knesset MP from 1992 to 1996. In 2005, Segev was convicted of smuggling drugs from the Netherlands and forging a diplomatic passport, but he was released in 2007.