• Published 00:00 21.04.07
  • Latest update 00:00 21.04.07

Police say enough testimony to try Hirchson for embezzlement

Finance Minister suspected of misappropriating funds from workers', health organizations.

By Jonathan Lis

Investigators have collected enough evidence in recent weeks to charge Finance Minister Abraham Hirchson with misappropriation of funds belonging to the National Workers Organization, the Leumit Health Maintenance Organization and a number of related associations, Haaretz has learned.

The police investigations chief, Major General Yohanan Danino, and the head of the team investigating Hirchson, Brigadier General Yoav Segalovich, are to meet with Attorney General Menachem Mazuz to update him on the investigation.

The briefing will be the third in recent months on the investigation.

Hirchson was last questioned ten days ago at the Unit for the Prevention of Economic Crime in Lod, and is expected to be questioned again in the coming days.

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  • 2. 0 0
    The Dishonorable Thief
    • SJ
    • 22.04.07
    • 06:27

    It is anational discrase that Hirschon has been allowed to continue in his role as finance minister after such serious allegations of embezzlement, he has destroyed the publics trust and must resign immediatly. Lets hope the trial will follow shortly.

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    Hirshson
    • Realistic
    • 22.04.07
    • 00:19

    Does this mean that he will resign or are we doomed to bear his presence until after the trial?