Haaretz reports that the Israeli police’s National Fraud Squad recommended Sunday that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman be indicted “for serious crimes including money laundering, accepting bribes, obstruction of justice and harassing a witness.”
The newspaper reports that Lieberman is suspected of setting up front companies and bank accounts that were used to take in more than NIS 10 million [$2.5 million]. The investigation spans more than a decade.
In addition to the charges pending against the leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu Party, Haaretz reports that the police say they have accumulated sufficient evident to bring charges against Lieberman’s attorney, Yoav Many, and others linked to the foreign minister.
