Police investigators arrested three suspects last week – including a member of the Likud’s Central Committee – on suspicion of planning to use forged documents to sell land belonging to absentee Palestinian owners to an American millionaire.

The three allegedly planned to sell land amounting to 92 dunams (about 23 acres) between Jerusalem and the West Bank town of Beit Sahur for $10 million, according to Superintendent Aharon Gilor, head of the police fraud squad’s northern division.

At the start of last week, police arrested Issa Safouri, a 34-year-old Nazareth resident and a member of the Likud Central Committee who is thought to have made of use of forged documents and located the American buyer.
Full Article:haaretzdaily.com

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