Former high-ranking police official Menashe Arbiv was indicted in the Rishon L’Tzion Magistrate Court on Sunday morning 7 Adar on charges including fraud and breach of trust in the case related to Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto. Arbiv is a former commander of the Israel Police Yahalom (433) Unit, Israel’s FBI, but he was suspended and later resigned from the force after allegedly accepting bribes from Rabbi Pinto.

The Justice Department Police Investigations Unit worked with the State Prosecutor to prepare the indictment. Charges also relate to Arbiv’s time as attaché in the United States, when he allegedly received bribes in the form of assistance and high-end hotel rooms from Rav Pinto.

Rabbi Pinto was released from Nitzan Prison in January 2017 after serving ten months in prison as per a plea bargain agreement reached with the state.

(YWN – Israel Desk,Jerusalem)