An officer in the police’s Central District was interrogated by the Department for Internal Police Investigations (DIPI) on Sunday for alleged involvement in the corruption scandal surrounding Social Equality Minister May Golan.

Hebrew media identified the officer as a relative of the lawyer Ehud Gabay, another suspect in the investigation. Some reports identified the officer as Gabay’s son.

The DIPI interrogation came after police on September 15 raided Golan’s office and arrested six of her associates, including Gabay and Adi Hodfi-Biton, the minister’s chief of staff, following a months-long investigation into alleged financial crimes.

Citing sources close to the probe, Channel 13 said investigators detained the police officer on Sunday based on information that emerged from testimonies gathered in the case. Investigators waited for the officer at Ben Gurion International Airport and detained him there when he returned from abroad, the network said.

Meanwhile, the police’s prosecution department on Sunday filed an........

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