Official: Plea bargain for celebrity Rabbi Pinto
Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto to serve year in jail in exchange for admiting he bribed top police commander.
The official says Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, as part of the plea bargain, agreed to admit to bribing a senior police officer for access to his police file in 2012. He said prosecutors would seek a year-long jail sentence for Pinto.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity pending an official Israeli announcement.
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He said as part of the plea bargain, Pinto has agreed to turn state's witness in a separate bribery case against another police officer, the head of a unit known as Israel's FBI, who later resigned.
The indictment is based on an investigation run by the police for over a year on an alleged bribe of $200,000 of officer Ephraim Bracha, in return for information regarding an investigation into an association with which Pinto was involved.
Commander Arbiv, the former head of the Lahav 433 anti-fraud unit - had over the years been enjoying "benefits" from Pinto. The indictment is based on an investigation run by the police for over a year on an alleged bribe of $200,000 of officer Ephraim Bracha, in return for information regarding an investigation into an association with which Pinto was involved.
