Arnaut Mimran gave Netanyahu the money in 2001 when Netanyahu was a private citizen and traveling for public diplomacy, according to a statement from the Prime Minister's Office.
Having investigated for a year alleged misuse of public funds by the prime minister's wife, the fraud squad told prosecutors it gathered enough proof to support a criminal prosecution.
The lawyer for Stephan Templ, who Austria jailed last year for defrauding it by omitting his aunt from his mother’s 2005 restitution application, presented documents to JTA dated 2002 proving he named his aunt.