A Turkish newspaper revealed new information Monday about a Syrian man who claimed he was a spy for Canada after he was arrested and accused of helping three British teenage girls to join ISIS.

Officials from both the Canadian government and the British Embassy in Ottawa remain tight-lipped about the arrest.

But the English-language Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah quoted from what it said was a leaked copy of the suspected spy's statement to police after his Feb. 28 arrest, allegedly saying he gathered intelligence from wounded ISIS fighters at a hospital. According to the newspaper report, he also admitted to helping 15 people from western countries travel from Turkey into Syria and join ISIS, including the British teens.

Turkish media have identified the suspect as Mohammed Al Rashed and claimed he was using an alias. In his purported leaked statement to police, the suspect reportedly described spying for Canada in detail and said he kept detailed records of all his activities on a laptop, which had been seized.

The suspect reportedly claimed his handlers were ''Matt '' and Matt's boss, named "Claude,' at the Canadian Embassy in Jordan. "While I was working in a hospital in Raqqa (a city in Syria), I was collecting information from the wounded regarding ISIS operations. I was handing this information to (the) Canadian Embassy in Jordan. I was also transmitting information to the same place via Internet," his statement to Turkish police allegedly said.

"I was delivering passport information, baggage tags and other details of the ones who came (to join ISIS from abroad) to my embassy contacts," he continued, according to the Daily Sabah.

Last week, Turkish newspapers published and broadcast photos of a man they named as Al Rashed amid reports that he passed information to Canadian intelligence in exchange for eventual Canadian citizenship.

Al Rashed also reportedly explained why he helped 15 people cross into Syria to join ISIS, including the British girls, South Africans, Indonesians, Australians and Nigerians.

"My aim was to learn which ways are being used by the ones who want to join ISIS and transfer this information to the Canadian government," he told police, saying he fed Canada details about his ISIS contacts, including "Abu Kaka, a British national in Raqqa."

Canada has said only that the arrested man was not a Canadian citizen and not a Canadian Security Intelligence Service employee and declined further comment.

Al Rashed told Turkish authorities the costs of his airplane travel were covered by the Canadian Embassy, the Daily Sabah reported.