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Police said set to recommend graft charges against Likud MK Bitan
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePolice are set to recommend that Likud MK David Bitan, a former Knesset coalition chairman, be indicted on multiple charges of bribery, fraud and money laundering.
The police recommendation will be handed to prosecutors before election day on April 9, Channel 12 news reports.
The charges will cover multiple separate incidents of alleged graft from Bitan’s period as a prominent member of the Rishon Lezion city council, and allegedly involve local real estate developers paying for zoning and other regulatory decisions.
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