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Commission investigating police corruption submits report condemning conduct
By: israelinsider staff   
Published: February 18, 2007   
 
The Zeiler Commission investigating the Perinian crime family brothers affair submitted a report Sunday slamming the conduct of the police's top brass.

Judge (ret.) Vardi Zeiler, who chaired the commission, stated that Police Chief Moshe Karadi should be dismissed in light of his involvement in the affair. However, the other commission members agreed that given Karadi's clean record and the time that elapsed since the affair broke out, lesser measures would suffice.

They therefore recommended that the chief's tenure should not be extended, and that he should step down once his tenure ends in July.

The scandel at the heart of the Zeiler Commission's investigation centered on Tzachi Ben-Or, a police officer turned criminal, who became an accomplice of the Perinian crime family. In September 1999, Ben-Or murdered a rival crime lord, Pinhas Buhbut, while in uniform, during the latter's hospitalization at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer.


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