The Swiss prosecutor's office said today that a spy program blocked computers during negotiations on Iran's nuclear program last year at a large hotel in Geneva.
Negotiations between officials and experts from the USA, Russia, China, Great Britain, France and Germany with Iran lasted from November 2013 and were conducted mainly in Switzerland and Austria, and ended on July 14 last year with the signing of an agreement on limiting Iran's nuclear program. in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions against Tehran.
The Ministry of State Affairs of Switzerland stated that the investigation of the case was suspended because it was not possible to determine the identity of those responsible for the espionage.
In May of last year, the Swiss authorities launched a criminal investigation against unknown persons, suspected of "political intelligence activities prohibited in Switzerland", and during the search of the hotel where the negotiations were held, a large number of computers were seized.
The Prosecutor's Office stated in a statement that "as part of the investigation, it was possible to determine that numerous computers in a hotel in Geneva were infected with 'malware' developed for espionage activities, which was used to collect data from infected devices."
IT experts accused Israel of spying because the country strongly opposed the negotiations.
The Russian information security company "Kaspersky Lab" (Kaspersky Lab) announced earlier that it had discovered the presence of a spy program that experts estimated originated from Israel.
Israel denied being behind those activities, and the Swiss authorities confirmed that the results of the investigation "did not point to a specific culprit", which, they stated, means that there were criminal acts, but that they cannot be attributed to any individual.
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