A Knesset legislator filed a police complaint against former Bank of Israel Governor Jacob Frenkel. Tuesday’s move came after the state comptroller’s annual report on government activities, released a day earlier, found evidence of excessive payments of some $57,000 that Frenkel received in benefits from the bank.
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