Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein decided to file an
indictment against Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto. The indictment is expected to be
filed within the next few days.
The rabbi will be indicted for offences of bribe to police
officer Menasheh Arbiv in return for information on secret police investigation.
The indictment is based on an investigation run by the
police for over a year on an alleged bribe of $200,000 of officer Ephraim
Bracha, in return for information regarding an investigation into an
association with which Pinto was involved.
In January, it was revealed that police were investigating
senior officers on suspicion of accepting bribes from Pinto.
The allegations included claims that the wife of Rabbi
Yoshiyahu Pinto handed a suitcase containing hundreds of thousands of shekels
to Bracha's wife.
Pinto is one of Israel’s most influential rabbis, acting as
a spiritual adviser to numerous politicians and tycoons, and heading many
education and welfare organizations.
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