Balad Officials Arrested on Charges of Fundraising Fraud
The Balad Party, which is part of the Joint (Arab) List faction in the Knesset, saw 20 members of its party apparatus arrested by Israeli police Sunday on charges of conspiracy to commit campaign funding fraud. The charges specify that the Party falsely reported the origins of millions of shekels in donations raised in Israel and abroad. Balad flatly denied the charges, saying the arrests were part of “the campaign of political persecution against the Arab minority, in general, and the political movements, in particular.”
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