Two days after it was reported in "Globes," the Israel Police have confirmed a report in "Globes" from two days ago that it was recommending the indictment of 36 suspects in the Yisrael Beitenu Party affair, including former MK and deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Faina Kirshenbaum and former MK and Minister of Tourism Stas Misezhnikov.
The police are recommending the indictment of the suspects for public corruption in both national and local politics. A police spokesman announced that an investigation had established evidence of a series of crimes by the main suspects, including present and former senior public sector officials.
Other prominent suspects whose indictment was recommended by the police include Tamar Regional Council head Dov Litvinoff, former Yisrael Beitenu chief of staff David Godovsky, former National Transport Infrastructure Company CEO Shai Baras, former NTA Metropolitan Mass Transit System chairman Alex Wiznitzer, lobbyist Yisrael Yehoshua, former Ministry of Agriculture director-general Rami Cohen, non-profit organization Ezra director Danniel Elinson, Ayalim cofounder and director Matan Dahan, Israel Anti-Drug Authority director general Yair Geller, former Kirshenbaum parliamentary assistant Victoria Rabin, former Ministry of Tourism office director Limor Barzilai, former Samaria Development Company head Haim Ben Shoshan, former Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Agriculture staff director Tali Keidar, and Local Government Economic Services chairman Shaul Mizrahi.
The police added that sufficient evidence was not found against Afula Mayor Yitzhak Meron, another person questioned under caution.
Israel Police Lahav 433 National Fraud Unit Investigation and Intelligence Section has just completed a broad and complex investigation into public corruption, including a large number of small affairs, in which a suspected systematic and organized mechanism for transferring state funds to a number of entities in return for providing profits of various types, was investigated. The investigation included bribery, fraud, breach of trust, money laundering, falsification of records, and obstruction of an investigation, the police said.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on October 21, 2015
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