The New York Times · 14 April 1987

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Israeli Officials Meet on Corruption Charges

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The following dispatch was altered by Israeli military censorship. TEL AVIV, April 13 (AP) — Israeli officials met today in Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's office to discuss charges of high-level corruption in the state security field, the Israeli radio reported. The details of the charges are secret.

The Supreme Court has banned publication of details of the affair, the daily newspaper Yediot Ahronot reported. The officials who met today, including representatives of the Defense and Justice ministries, decided to initiate legal proceedings and to ask the Government to present its position, the Israeli radio and the Itim news agency said.

A legislator from the leftist Shinui Party, Mordechai Virshubsky, said he had appealed to Mr. Shamir and Justice Minister Avraham Sharir to prevent any attempt to block an inquiry. Fabricated Evidence Mr. Virshubsky said he had discovered that evidence had been fabricated for a court hearing, but he declined to be more specific.

He charged that Attorney General Yosef Harish was under pressure to close the case. “I appealed to whom I had to appeal, and I hope they will act,” Mr. Virshubsky said. He declined to elaborate.

The daily Hadashot reported on Sunday that the Attorney General's office had “received material showing that in a trial held in the north, illegal acts of falsifying evidence were committed.” A Justice Ministry spokeswoman refused to comment on the reports.

Hadashot said the affair involved “a highly sensitive security issue” and identified its central figure as a man whose name “was connected to another affair that shook the Israeli public.” The newspaper said the man had resigned from his post several months ago and was promoted to a senior job at a state-owned company.

Most Israeli newspaper reports on the case mentioned an article published last week by the weekly Koteret Rashit about Yossi Ginossar, a former senior agent of the Shin Beth, the internal security service. Mr.

Ginossar, 41 years old, was one of 11 Shin Beth agents pardoned without trial by the President after it was disclosed that two Palestinian bus hijackers were beaten to death after being taken captive in April 1984. The scandal dominated Israel last year.

Shin Beth agents fatally beat the two Palestinian hijackers and allegedly falsified evidence and lied about their activities in subsequent investigations. Immediately after the hijacking, officials reported all the hijackers had been killed when Israeli forces stormed the bus.

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