Israeli police suspect a Ukrainian crime ring of smuggling prostitutes into Israel by arranging bogus Jewish immigration papers for them. Forty people, including 20 women of foreign origin, are in custody in Israel on suspicion of defrauding the government and receiving immigrant subsidies worth tens of millions of shekels, police said Monday.
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