The State Attorney’s office announced this week that it would indict former Labor Party leader and Defense Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer for bribery and corruption. On the same day, the newspapers reported on the mysterious disappearance of a former aide to Prime Minister Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Lieberman, who is suspected of having served as middleman and money launderer in the burgeoning Yisrael Beiteinu payola scandal, which apparently involves other political parties, as well.
It was also announced that Shula Zaken, ex-confidante and current informer on Ehud Olmert, will be released from prison at the end of this month, while the former prime minister awaits what could well turn out to be his own, far longer jail sentence. Then the news broke that a senior police officer was suspected of extorting sexual favors in exchange for a promotion.
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