Employee's gambling related embezzlement
backfires at Israeli minister
Avraham Hirchson, the
finance minister of Israel, announced that he will temporarily
suspend himself from the post, while the Israeli police
investigates a gambling debt related embezzlement case in his
department.
He is also under
investigation for failing to report the case. The former
employee of the finance department told Hirchson in 2003 that he
had taken over $1.3 million to cover a gambling debts. The
Israeli finance minister, although firing the employee, did not
report the missing funds.
According to his
attorney, Hirchson stepped down temporarily to help clear his
name out of the fraud, and to avoid future accusations that he
may have influenced the current investigation. There is no
official statement from the Israeli Ministry of Finance at this
time.
04/22/2007
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