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Interior Minister Deri released after 7 hours of police questioning
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri is released after being questioned for over seven hours in his fifth round of police interrogation, as part of an ongoing corruption investigation into a range of suspicions against him.
Deri is suspected of diverting hundreds of thousands of shekels in state funds to NGOs run by members of his immediate family, as well as suspected tax fraud linked to the sale of apartments to his brother.
He faces possible charges of theft, fraud and tax evasion.
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