Avi Fahima, an electrician who carried out projects in the prime minister’s official residence in Jerusalem and private villa in Caesarea, is interrogated by police for six hours over suspicions of misconduct.
A February state comptroller report said that, for several months in 2010, Fahima did not produce receipts for his labor, and allegedly received fees far higher than those that appeared in his initial cost estimates.
The report also faulted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, for enlisting Fahima’s services on the weekends and even on Yom Kippur at the couple’s private residence in Casearea.
The attorney general in July ordered a criminal investigation into the hiring of Fahima and other alleged financial irregularities in the Prime Minister’s Residence.
Ezra Saidoff, the deputy director general for operations at the Prime Minister’s Residence, is expected to face police interrogation in the coming days.
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