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Monday, November 11, 2019
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Monday, November 11, 2019
Former Ashkelon mayor convicted of taking bribes
Itamar Shimoni, the former mayor of Ashkelon, is convicted of bribery, breach of trust and money laundering, but is found not guilty of swaying media coverage in his favor.
Shimoni was initially charged also with sex crimes, but those charges were later dropped.
The conviction comes a week after police arrested more than a dozen employees of local municipalities, including the mayor of the northern city of Kiryat Ata, Yaakov Peretz, and Tel Mond Council Head Shmuel Siso, for their suspected roles in a wide-ranging kickback scheme.
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