Last update - 00:00 20/03/2007
Police grill Katsav's brother over sexual harrasment complaint
By Haaretz Service
Police on Tuesday interrogated the brother of President Moshe Katsav, Lior Katsav, for the alleged sexual harassment of a foreign laborer some two years ago.
The complainant, a citizen of Belarus, claims she was harassed by Katsav some two years ago at a diner on the Arava road. She filed her complaint a few weeks ago after she was arrested by the immigration police.
Katsav has categorically denied the allegations and expressed his willingness to undergo a polygraph test.
"Everything said against me is babble and never happened. I believe and hope the police will soon uncover the truth," he said.
The complainant also filed a complaint against lawyer Amos Maimon, who briefly served as a senior official at the President's Residence. She claimed he hugged her at a hotel in Eilat, offered to help her arrange permanent residency status and then tried to forcibely kiss her.
"There's no truth to the allegations," Maimon said. "I don't know who's trying to tarnish my name and who is trying to pull strings to hurt me. Even if all her allegations were true, they are not sexual offenses."