Police on Sunday morning 4 Tammuz used search warrants to enter the homes of a number of employees of the Jerusalem Religious Council who are allegedly involved in corruption.
Five persons involved have been detained or arrested on suspicion of fraud and breach of trust. Documents and computers were confiscated by police during the searches.
The ongoing investigation stems from allegations of fraud and nonfeasance related to the council’s responsibilities to provide kashrus and other religious services in the city. A probe into alleged law-breaking is also being conducted by the Jerusalem City Comptroller’s Office.
Police declined comment since the investigation is ongoing other than additional arrests are to be expected.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Are those police arabs?
People should not get their hope up too high for something to be accomplished that will be meaningful to the people of Israel. Look for example at what happened in a similar case in Beitar Elite a few years ago. The police went in, in force, took away mayor Rubenstein, several of the rabbis in paddy wagons, in handcuffs. As they mayor was being led away he defended his intervention with the police for the police not to lay charges against the Beitar beat’m up squad. Later the police said that charges of obstruction of justice were to be laid against Rubenstein and that they were investigating the rabbis for extortion, fraud, illegal confinement, beatings of people, breach of trust, etc.
By some miracle ( or other intervention at a lower level ), no one was ever charged, the Hadad brothers in charge of the beat’m up squad under rabbi(?) Ordentlicht, one of them was given community work, the other I never heard of after that. Their bosses were never charged and similarly the mayor. Later the mayor was upstaged by an employee of the central government who is the defacto man in charge of Beitar with the mayor still receiving his big salary and taxpayer paid luxury car which almost none in Beitar can afford, all for no work.
This is typical of justice in the so called, madina moderne.
jews aressting jewish rabbis???