A well-known personal trainer from Tel Aviv was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of having drugged and raped a client, in a case that is largely being kept under a gag order.

While details of the investigation, including the identity of the trainer, were not permitted for publication, Channel 12 news reported that the investigation was opened after the victim of the alleged rape, a woman in her 20s, filed a complaint with the Israel Police this past weekend. A lawyer for the suspect said after a court hearing on Sunday that he denied all the allegations.

Police are probing whether the trainer used a date-rape drug, the report said, as the victim’s friends found her in her home last weekend, after spending time socially with the trainer and another person, with only a hazy memory of what had taken place. She was then taken to the hospital for a medical examination, where it was determined that she had recently had sexual intercourse, of which she had no memory.

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