Police officer questioned for alleged involvement in May Golan corruption case
Officer said to be relative of key suspect in alleged financial crimes surrounding social equality minister, whose top aide is reportedly to be indicted in separate drug case
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on Google
An officer in the police’s Central District was interrogated by the Department for Internal Police Investigations (DIPI) on Sunday for alleged involvement in the corruption scandal surrounding Social Equality Minister May Golan.
Hebrew media identified the officer as a relative of the lawyer Ehud Gabay, another suspect in the investigation. Some reports identified the officer as Gabay’s son.
The DIPI interrogation came after police on September 15 raided Golan’s office and arrested six of her associates, including Gabay and Adi Hodfi-Biton, the minister’s chief of staff, following a months-long investigation into alleged financial crimes.
Citing sources close to the probe, Channel 13 said investigators detained the police officer on Sunday based on information that emerged from testimonies gathered in the case. Investigators waited for the officer at Ben Gurion International Airport and detained him there when he returned from abroad, the network said.
Meanwhile, the police’s prosecution department on Sunday filed an indictment against Hodfi-Biton’s husband Mor Biton on charges of illegally growing, producing, and preparing dangerous drugs, after investigators who searched the couple’s home found a nursery containing some 80 cannabis plants, according to the indictment.
Biton’s lawyer has said Biton was growing the cannabis as a surprise for his wife, who is seven months pregnant, and that she was unaware of the laboratory in her home.
תיעוד מעבדת הסמים ביבנה שתפסה המשטרה בביתה של אחת העובדות בלשכת של מאי גולן שעוכבה.
אגב,
זוכרים את הימים שנתניהו אמר שייפעל ללגליזציה? מה קורה עם זה. pic.twitter.com/SPzm9uG8sA— Josh Breiner (@JoshBreiner) September 15, 2025
However, the Kan public broadcaster said police would file an indictment against her in the drug case subject to a hearing, after investigators who searched her government-issue Skoda car discovered 158 grams of cannabis, divided into 20 bags, according to Mor Biton’s indictment.
The police probe into Golan and her associates was launched after a Channel 12 investigative report in January found alleged instances of nepotism at the Ministry of Social Equality, and dubious fundraising at an anti-migrant organization she founded.
Golan is suspected of fraud, misusing public funds for private purposes, creating fictitious positions in the Social Equality Ministry, and concealing sources of funding, and she is likely to be questioned on suspicion of accepting a bribe.
The minister, a member of the ruling Likud party, denies all wrongdoing. She has refused to submit to police questioning and reportedly whisked her mother away in the middle of a questioning earlier this month.
The Times of Israel Community.