Prosecutors say he lobbied government officials to obtain planning approvals for buildings and factories.
The American, Edmond Pope, was arrested in April and charged with trying illegally to obtain plans for the torpedo.
Since Israel captured and occupied East Jerusalem in the 1967 war it has been difficult for the Palestinian residents of the east to obtain planning permits.
But travellers are sceptical of the development, which means they are unable to obtain planning permission after they have set up camp.
Labour has also promised action against developers who obtain planning permission and then sit on land waiting for its value to increase.
While Muslims can build mosques anywhere they like – even illegally, and the state never dares to knock them down – Copts face often-insurmountable bureaucratic hurdles to obtain planning permission, not just for new churches, but even to renovate existing ones.
In the letter, passed to the Guardian, Ladbrokes said that "some councils are now placing whatever obstacles they can in the way of our ability to obtain planning permission" for betting shops and attacked "alarming actions by unelected officials".
Most can help clients to obtain planning and building consents, and some will manage and monitor the builder's work through to completion - but not all are able or willing to do so.
"What really made the Victoria Palace irresistible to me is that Stephen has imaginatively seized the opportunity arising from major building development taking place all around the theatre to obtain planning consent to extend the stage and front of house areas.
