Israeli and German prosecutors are expected to file charges soon against attorneys in both countries suspected of embezzling hundreds of millions of dollars from a German pension fund intended for Holocaust survivors. The news magazine Der Spiegel reported that two attorneys in Tel Aviv and Berlin allegedly took some $600 million while posing as middlemen for processing pension fund applications.
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