Mazuz orders 'preliminary' probe into Katsav affair Daily Edition

Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz on Tuesday ordered police to initiate a "preliminary" investigation into allegations by President Moshe Katsav that a former Beit Hanassi employee tried to blackmail him. The ex-employee had never filed a sexual harassment complaint, Katsav said - not when sh...

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Published inThe Jerusalem post
Main Author GREER FAY CASHMAN and DAN IZENBERG
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Jerusalem The Jerusalem Post Ltd 12.07.2006
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Katsav, Moshe
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Summary:Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz on Tuesday ordered police to initiate a "preliminary" investigation into allegations by President Moshe Katsav that a former Beit Hanassi employee tried to blackmail him. The ex-employee had never filed a sexual harassment complaint, Katsav said - not when she left Beit Hanassi, not when she worked there and not during the months that she spent abroad. Nor did she file a complaint after she returned to Israel. When he had met with her, Katsav said, the subject of sexual harassment had not been not raised at all. Katsav's spokeswoman Hagit Cohen confirmed on Tuesday evening that Katsav has not hired a lawyer but was still consulting with former justice minister David Liba'i.