Iran source of 40,000 e-messages to disturb elections

Manama, Nov. 24 (BNA): Director-General of Anti-corruption and Economic and Electronic Security announced today that the investigation into false messages sent to citizens telling them their names aren't included in the list of voters and the monitoring of social media resulted in identifying the numbers of some of the senders and those standing behind them. The crime was committed by individuals in Bahrain and Iran, in which they hacked a number of servers to carry out their illegal act, in which legal procedures are being taken to refer the case to the Public Prosecution. He said that the investigation also revealed that Iran was the source for 40,000 e-messages to disturb the parliamentary and municipal elections.