Former ’Israeli’ Cabinet Members to Be Charged With Corruption
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Former "Israeli" minister Stas Misezhnikov and former Deputy Minister Faina Kirschenbaum are among the 16 suspects to be charged with corruption.
Both Misezhnikov and Kirschenbaum will be summoned for a hearing, after which they are expected to be formally charged.
The economic department of the "Israeli" Attorney's Office has notified 14 other suspects that it is considering prosecuting them as well. Further summonses are pending, with a decision not yet reached in some of the cases.
Stas Misezhnikov, a former tourism minister, is expected to be charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust and with possession and use of a dangerous substance, as well as obstruction of justice.
Faina Kirschenbaum, a former deputy minister at the apartheid entity's interior ministry and the former general secretary of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, is expected to be charged with bribery, fraud, breach of trust, money laundering and tax evasion.
Misezhnikov, while in office, is suspected of giving one million shekels [$250,000] for a students' festival in Eilat and asking organizers to employ his partner. They are said to have complied, paying her tens of thousands of shekels. He is also charged with sending one of his advisers to purchase cocaine for himself on several occasions while he was serving as tourism minister, and of using the drug during official events in Israel and abroad.
The violations attributed to these suspects took place between 2009 and 2014. Some of the activity is said to have only stopped when the investigation became public knowledge in December 2014.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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