Massive Palestinian Embezzlement and Corruption
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The claims were made by Fahmi Shabaneh, who has investigated corruption for the P.A.’s General Intelligence Service for the past four years.
Senior officials in the P.A. have pocketed huge sums of money earmarked as donations to the P.A. from European and Arab countries.
Shabaneh gave Channel 10 boxes full of official papers and tapes collected over the past six years, documenting bank withdrawals by senior Palestinians from P.A. accounts, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars.
Another system of embezzlement was to allocate more money from the P.A.’s coffers to purchase land or property than the cost of the land, thus leaving excess, which was pocketed by officials.
Shabaneh decided to take his findings to the Israeli media after he became frustrated by the lack of action taken following his attempts to present his findings to Abbas.
The evidence also included a video tape allegedly showing Abbas’ bureau chief and close advisor Rafiq Al-Husseini asking a woman for sexual favors in exchange for employment in his office.
Senior officials in the P.A. have pocketed huge sums of money earmarked as donations to the P.A. from European and Arab countries.
Shabaneh gave Channel 10 boxes full of official papers and tapes collected over the past six years, documenting bank withdrawals by senior Palestinians from P.A. accounts, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars.
Another system of embezzlement was to allocate more money from the P.A.’s coffers to purchase land or property than the cost of the land, thus leaving excess, which was pocketed by officials.
Shabaneh decided to take his findings to the Israeli media after he became frustrated by the lack of action taken following his attempts to present his findings to Abbas.
The evidence also included a video tape allegedly showing Abbas’ bureau chief and close advisor Rafiq Al-Husseini asking a woman for sexual favors in exchange for employment in his office.
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