Police: Deep-rooted corruption at state’s road and rail company

Police say they have completed a corruption investigation involving dozens of senior current and former employees of the state-owned National Transport Infrastructure Company (Netivei Yisrael), which is responsible for Israel’s roads and railways.

“We investigated a suspected systematic and organized mechanism for the transfer of state funds … estimated at hundreds of millions of shekels,” the police say in a statement, according to Channel 2.

“The investigation uncovered alleged systematic criminal activity and deep corruption within Netivei Yisrael for more than a decade, under the tenure of several CEOs and with the involvement of a range of people from different areas of the company, including executives, managers, and junior staff, as well as those who were supposed to be the ‘gatekeepers,'” say the police.