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Katsav complainant confronts former president over rape accusation
By Tomer Zarchin and Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondents
Tags: Rape, Police, Israel News 

Moshe Katsav was confronted in front of investigators by complainant A. from the Tourism Ministry on Friday morning over her allegations that the former president raped her.

A., who worked for Katsav when he was Tourism Minister, had requested the confrontation be held before prosecutors decide whether to include her complaints in a new indictment against Katsav. It took place at a police station somewhere in central Israel, and lasted about 40 minutes.

Katsav left office in 2007 under a cloud of sexual misconduct allegations. A trial is now pending, after Katsav accepted, then rejected a plea bargain, under which rape charges were to have be dropped but the former president would have admitted to sexual harassment and indecent acts and receive a suspended jail sentence, paying compensation to two of his victims.
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Police kept the location and time of Friday's confrontation secret in an effort to prevent the media from filming Katsav arriving at the station.

A.'s initial complaint, which was over incidents of sexual abuse in addition to the rape charge, was excluded from the original indictment after the state prosecution decided that her testimony was not sufficiently reliable due to a number of contradictions.

The prosecution's decision came after the police interviewed A. and despite the fact that they decided that her testimony was in fact credible, and recommended that the prosecution indict Katsav for rape based on her testimony.


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