Re: Since the communist countries are *free* their weapons technology and scientists are for sale, and their banks are *free* to launder money for criminals...
Ah! Those damn communist countries are terrible, aren't they?
Tue., May 25, 2004 Sivan 5, 5764
Former minister suspected of trying to defraud Czech banks
By Roni Singer, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service
Former minister Gonen Segev, who was indicted earlier this month on suspicion of smuggling of Ecstasy tablets from the Netherlands to Israel, is now also being investigated for allegedly defrauding Czech banks by depositing forged checks.
Tel Aviv police announced on Tuesday morning that it expects to receive additional information from Interpol during the coming days for its investigation into the new allegations against Segev, who served as energy minister in Yitzhak Rabin's government in the 1990s.
Segev, a pediatrician by profession, claims he thought the five-kilogram package contained M&M chocolates. His cousin Moshe Verner and attorney Ariel Friedman are also suspected of being involved in the drug-smuggling.
Initially, Segev said the person who gave him the package was known to him only by his first name. He later changed his version and said his cousin had given him the sweets. Later, Segev said a man named Ariel Friedman, a Haifa attorney who is also under arrest in connection with the affair, had asked him to deliver the sweets to his wife.
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