A well-known personal trainer from Tel Aviv has been arrested over allegations he drugged and raped a client, Hebrew media reports.
Details of the investigation, including the identity of the trainer, cannot be published at this time, but Channel 12 news reports that a past prime minister was a client of the suspect in the past.
The alleged victim says that a friend found her hours after a social gathering with the trainer and another person, Channel 12 reports.
She claims she awoke in a daze and was taken to hospital. Before filing a complaint at the police station, she got into an argument with the suspect, the report says.
A relative of the trainer tells Channel 12 that the suspect is adamant he did not commit the crime and that “it is all a lie.”
Police have opened an investigation, and seized the suspect’s computers and phones during a search of his home, Channel 12 reports.
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