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Three senior officials, including ministry chief, questioned over criminal suspicions
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePolice interrogated three senior officials, including the director general of a government ministry, on criminal suspicions today.
They were questioned by detectives in the Lahav 433 major crimes unit on suspicion of fraud, breach of trust, abuse of authority and making threats, police say.
According to the Kan public broadcaster, the director general is suspected of trying to illicitly interfere in decisions made by someone close to his ministry and prevent the justified dismissal of a colleague.
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