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Topic: corruption

June 19, 2013
5:42 am

Michael Applebaum, Montreal's mayor (photo credit: Wikipedia Commons/abdallahh)

Montreal interim mayor resigns after fraud arrest

‘I want to be clear that I have never taken a penny from anybody,’ says Michael Applebaum, who faces 14 fraud and corruption charges

May 22, 2013
12:17 pm

Yossi Ben-David (photo credit: screen capture radiomerkaz/Youtube)

Yehud mayor arrested on corruption charges

Police detain Yossi Ben David and 5 others suspected of bribery and money laundering

By Aaron Kalman

April 23, 2013
10:07 am

Bat Yam Mayor Shlomi Lahiani speaks to press at the Knesset in 2010. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Bat Yam mayor to be indicted on corruption charges

Shlomo Lahiani vows to fight accusations of bribery, fraud, breach of trust and failure to declare millions in income

By Gavriel Fiske

March 22, 2013
5:08 am

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy (photo credit: Michel Euler/AP)

Sarkozy investigated over campaign financing

Former French president allegedly accepted illegal donation during 2007 presidential run

By Jamie Keaten

March 7, 2013
11:04 am

In this Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 file photo, newly-arrived Syrian refugee families receive food from the Jordanian military after they crossed the border from Tal Shehab city in Syria, through the Al Yarmouk River valley, into Thnebeh town, in Ramtha , Jordan (Photo credit: AP/Mohammed Hannon).

Arab League gives go ahead to arm Syria rebels

Syrian defector claims Assad regime sells oil to Israel; Jordanian Parliament adjourned after MP pulls out his pistol

By Michael Bassin

March 5, 2013
9:43 am

Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich (left) and former party leader Amir Peretz (right) in 2011. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Police probe Peretz, Labor MKs for buying votes

Party leader Shelly Yachimovich points the finger at her predecessor; ex-minister Salah Tarif and ex-MK Raleb Majadele also named

By Adiv Sterman

January 31, 2013
4:54 pm

Ramat Gan Mayor Zvi Bar (photo credit: CC-BY, Avishai Teicher, Wikidemia Commons)

Ramat Gan mayor charged with corruption

From the web Zvi Bar indicted for allegedly taking NIS 1.9 million in bribes, Ynet reports

January 29, 2013
2:01 am

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman, January 2013. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Liberman trial set for next month

Ex-foreign minister to face a three-judge panel for fraud and breach of trust charges

December 29, 2012
6:47 am

Tunisian Foreign Minister Rafik Abdessalem (photo credit: Foreign Ministry of Tunisia)

Tunisia’s Islamist FM caught in affair and money embezzlement scandal

From the web Al Arabiya: Rafik Abdessalem dismisses allegations that he spent several nights at a hotel in Tunis with a woman and paid for his stay from the government’s coffers

December 23, 2012
10:08 pm

Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Liberman summoned for questioning over breach of trust charge

Channel 2 reports that a committee member involved in the Belarus ambassador appointment gave evidence contradicting that of the former FM

By Asher Zeiger

December 21, 2012
12:24 am

Avigdor Liberman outside his home in the settlement of Nokdim (photo credit: Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Liberman reiterates his innocence, blasts media’s ‘lies and prejudice’

In television interview, former foreign minister says he would not change how he acted in Belarus ambassador affair

By Asher Zeiger

December 13, 2012
11:38 pm

Ze'ev Ben Aryeh (screen grab from Channel 1)

Former ambassador implicated in Liberman affair says FM did nothing wrong

Ze’ev Ben Aryeh backs up former boss, encourages him to ‘hang in there’

By Asher Zeiger and Times of Israel staff

November 27, 2012
8:27 am

Top Bolivian official allegedly got rich off jailed Jewish-American’s holdings

Jacob Ostreicher, detained for 18 months without charges, says he fears for his life now that government officials are suspected of corruption

By Paola Flores

November 25, 2012
8:58 am

Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police chief calls for statute of limitations on indictments

‘We cannot file charges 10 years after alleged crime was committed,’ Yohanan Danino says in an apparent reference to FM Liberman’s corruption case

By Asher Zeiger and Times of Israel staff

October 28, 2012
5:16 pm

Former envoy to Belarus sentenced for leaking info to Liberman

Ze’ev Ben Aryeh to serve four months community service after confessing to passing classified papers

By Asher Zeiger

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: corruption

Montreal interim mayor resigns after fraud arrest

‘I want to be clear that I have never taken a penny from anybody,’ says Michael Applebaum, who faces 14 fraud and corruption charges

Yehud mayor arrested on corruption charges

Police detain Yossi Ben David and 5 others suspected of bribery and money laundering

Bat Yam mayor to be indicted on corruption charges

Shlomo Lahiani vows to fight accusations of bribery, fraud, breach of trust and failure to declare millions in income

Sarkozy investigated over campaign financing

Former French president allegedly accepted illegal donation during 2007 presidential run

Arab League gives go ahead to arm Syria rebels

Syrian defector claims Assad regime sells oil to Israel; Jordanian Parliament adjourned after MP pulls out his pistol

Police probe Peretz, Labor MKs for buying votes

Party leader Shelly Yachimovich points the finger at her predecessor; ex-minister Salah Tarif and ex-MK Raleb Majadele also named

Ramat Gan mayor charged with corruption

From the web Zvi Bar indicted for allegedly taking NIS 1.9 million in bribes, Ynet reports

Liberman trial set for next month

Ex-foreign minister to face a three-judge panel for fraud and breach of trust charges

Tunisia’s Islamist FM caught in affair and money embezzlement scandal

From the web Al Arabiya: Rafik Abdessalem dismisses allegations that he spent several nights at a hotel in Tunis with a woman and paid for his stay from the government’s coffers

Liberman summoned for questioning over breach of trust charge

Channel 2 reports that a committee member involved in the Belarus ambassador appointment gave evidence contradicting that of the former FM

Liberman reiterates his innocence, blasts media’s ‘lies and prejudice’

In television interview, former foreign minister says he would not change how he acted in Belarus ambassador affair

Former ambassador implicated in Liberman affair says FM did nothing wrong

Ze’ev Ben Aryeh backs up former boss, encourages him to ‘hang in there’

Top Bolivian official allegedly got rich off jailed Jewish-American’s holdings

Jacob Ostreicher, detained for 18 months without charges, says he fears for his life now that government officials are suspected of corruption

Police chief calls for statute of limitations on indictments

‘We cannot file charges 10 years after alleged crime was committed,’ Yohanan Danino says in an apparent reference to FM Liberman’s corruption case

Former envoy to Belarus sentenced for leaking info to Liberman

Ze’ev Ben Aryeh to serve four months community service after confessing to passing classified papers

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