Holyland: Former deputy mayor placed under house arrest
Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court slated to release Yehoshua Polak to house arrest for 10 days. He will be asked to post bail and hand over his passport
Former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Yehoshua Polak was brought before the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on Tuesday for a hearing regarding his release under restriction. He is slated to be placed under house arrest for 10 days. In addition, he will be asked to post bail and hand over his passport.
Polak, who has been investigated intensively since being arrested last week by the police fraud investigation unit, is suspected of receiving a bribe, being an intermediary, money laundering, fraud, breach of trust, and conspiring to commit a crime in the Holyland corruption case.
Polak, who currently serves as Beitar Illit's treasurer, served as Jerusalem's deputy mayor between 2003 and 2008, the chairman of the local planning and building board, and was in charge of the engineering department.
According to suspicions, Pollak received hundreds of thousands of shekels in bribes since 2004 in order to promote the Program 3507H and V (the Holyland project), in the local and district building and planning committees.
In a previous hearing on Pollak's file, Vice President of the Magistrates' Court Avraham Haiman said, "The more egregious a person's actions, it is more probable that that person will act to disrupt an investigation."
