Police have convinced a figure close to Social Equality Minister May Golan to turn state witness in a fraud investigation that has engulfed her office, Hebrew media reports. Efforts to enlist a second state witness are also reportedly in advanced stages.
Police conducted a series of raids earlier this week, arresting Golan’s former parliamentary aide Ehud Gabay and detaining five of her associates for interrogation.
Golan, a Likud lawmaker, and her circle are suspected of fraud, misusing public funds for private purposes, creating fictitious positions in the Social Equality Ministry. and concealing sources of funding.
This was done through the use of nonprofit organizations and government systems as a “tool for illegally extracting funds,” police added in their announcement of the raids.
Gabay had reportedly been targeted as a potential prosecution witness due to the central role he is alleged to have played in activities Golan’s office was involved in.
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