Does Israel Have a Corruption Problem?
Last month, Israel‘s attorney general, Yehuda Weinstein, announced that he was closing a 12-year investigation into Avigdor Lieberman, who until mid-December was the country’s foreign minister. The investigation focused on the suspicion that the minister had used foreign corporations with fictitious owners to hide private funds that he had received while in office. “If brought to court,” Weinstein explained, “the case would likely end in an acquittal.” The attorney general did, however, decide to indict Lieberman for a relatively minor offence — breaching the public trust.
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