Attorney General Meir Shamgar disclosed today that he has asked the police to investigate certain activities of Mordechai Friedman who resigned last week as managing director of the government-owned Netivei Neft oil company. A government panel investigating Netivei Neft absolved Friedman of wrong doing. Shamgar told newsmen, however, that his request for an investigation stemmed from certain matters that came up during the panel’s investigation.
He said these matters included income tax and foreign currency activities by Friedman and the mixing of his private funds with public property in the accounts of Netivei Neft. The panel, which concluded in its majority report that administrative irregularities on Friedman’s part did not warrant his dismissal, said, nevertheless, that the proper authorities should look into them if they saw fit to do so.
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