A former Israeli Air Force procurement officer convicted of embezzlement was set to go free after serving more than 13 years in prison. Rami Dotan, a former brigadier general demoted to private, was convicted of embezzling millions of dollars from U.S. aid packages by purchasing inferior equipment and pocketing the difference.
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