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The second and final hearing sentencing arguments at the Tel Aviv District Court was held this morning (Sunday), which sought to impose on the prosecution Rabbi Yeshayahu Pinto a year in prison or not even one day less, and the imposition of "substantial fine". "This is the appropriate punishment and not less of it. The court should not deviate away with it," said plaintiff Rachel Hazan Feldman.

At the outset, held in the Great Hall, due to the dozens of followers who also arrived in the preceding discussion, the rabbi ordered his followers to stay out of the courtroom, so that the hall was empty. Judge Oded Mudrik said with smile, "We cut back."

The prosecutor noted that the appropriate punishment in this case, if no plea bargain had come, was two to four years imprisonment in respect of the offense of giving bribes.

"This is an unprecedented case in its severity in terms of the attempt to harm law enforcement authorities. Bribing an amount so high that a senior police officer as part of the sequence, during which there was an attempt to disrupt a continued police investigation, is something unprecedented in its severity. This is an attempt to bribe a senior police officer to get information on investigations, which gives the bribe was questioned under caution. This bribing is a very high figure - 200 thousand dollars".



צילום: אלי שלזינגר, יוגב אטיאס, Ynet.

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