Israeli police launched a probe into a Cabinet minister who admitted trying to frame a party colleague. Attorney-General Menachem Mazuz on Monday instructed police to investigate Infrastructure Minister Yosef Paritzky on suspicion of criminal conspiracy. Paritzky last week admitted trying to get a private investigator to entrap Avraham Poraz, a Shinui Party rival, in a 2002 bribery case.
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