The head of the police’s major crimes unit will return to his post despite being interrogated yesterday on corruption suspicions, Israel Police says in a statement.
The decision was made after Deputy Commissioner Manny Binyamin, who is under investigation, met with police chief Danny Levy and other senior officers about the matter.
Binyamin, who heads the Lahav 433 major crimes unit, was questioned yesterday for a third time by investigators in the Department for Internal Police Investigations.
He is suspected of interfering in an investigation in which he had a conflict of interest and illicitly promoting a relative under his command.
At the end of questioning, investigators had him sign off on release conditions preventing him from speaking to others involved in the case, which he initially objected to.
Binyamin’s lawyer claims that an investigator assaulted him physically and put him under arrest for a brief period until he agreed to the limitations. The DIPI firmly rejected the lawyer’s allegations, calling them a “distortion of facts.”
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