Israel’s ambassador to Britain was linked to a money-laundering scandal. Ambassador Zvi Heifetz, a former aide to Israeli Russian tycoon Vladimir Goussinsky, faces questioning by police, Israel Radio said Monday. Goussinsky is suspected of links to a Tel Aviv branch of Bank Hapoalim whose staff are suspected of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign money.
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