Baar Yaakov Deputy Mayor and Six Others Indicted for Multi-Million Shekel Corruption
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First reported by Kan News · 4 hours ago
What happened
Noam Sasson, deputy mayor of Baar Yaakov, and six others were indicted for corruption involving rigged tenders, money laundering, and fraud totaling millions of shekels. The investigation uncovered abuse of power to benefit associates, including manipulating contracts worth over one million shekels and a 20 million shekel transportation tender. Sasson also threatened a council engineer during the probe.
- 01Deputy Mayor Noam Sasson and six others indicted for corruption and fraud in Baar Yaakov.
- 02Sasson manipulated education renovation tenders to benefit a friend, securing contracts over one million shekels.
- 03A 20 million shekel transportation tender was rigged through a fake share transfer to bypass conflict of interest rules.
- 04Sasson threatened the council engineer during the investigation over her police testimony.
- 05Charges include fraud, breach of trust, money laundering, bribery mediation, perjury, and tax offenses.
- 06Other suspects face money laundering and false corporate documentation charges involving millions of shekels.
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