ISRAEL
MWC News
By Gilad Atzmon
Rabbi Metzger is probed for bribery and money laundering.
Israeli National Fraud Squad raided the home and offices of Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yonah Metzger yesterday and questioned him under caution for ten hours, as part of a bribery, fraud, money-laundering and breach-of-trust case.
Metzger was later released. The chief Rabbi is now under house arrest.
Chief Rabbi Metzger is forbidden to enter his offices, leave the country or make contact with any of the other suspects in the case.
Metzger and three other Jewish orthodox men are suspected of being involved in the pilfering of hundreds of thousands of shekels from a number of charities.
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