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World Jewish News
Lieberman grilled by police fraud unit
07.04.2009
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was interrogated Tuesday by National Fraud Unit investigators on Tuesday for the third tiome since he entered office a week ago.
On Friday Lieberman was questioned under caution for five hours over suspicions of bribery, money laundering, fraudulent receipt of goods and breach of public trust.
On Saturday night, a former senior National Fraud Unit investigator told The Jerusalem Post that Lieberman was confronted with a number of documents during his interrogation sessions with police last week.
Police reportedly recovered a large amount of documents, many of them banking records, in recent months as part of the investigation against Lieberman, who is suspected of using a Cypriot bank account registered under the name of his daughter, Michal, to launder millions of shekels.
On Thursday, Lieberman was questioned in a marathon interrogation session spanning seven-and-a-half hours.
Police also suspect Lieberman of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes between 2001 and 2004, while serving as national infrastructures minister and as transportation minister, allegedly receiving the funds from two businessmen.
Police suspect some of the funds may have passed through a consultancy firm owned by Lieberman's daughter, as well as a company owned by Lieberman himself. Lieberman is also suspected of running personal business affairs while holding a ministerial post.
Источник: JPost.com
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