I-21 Israeli president - Moshe Katsav in sex scandal

Police accuse Israeli president of rape
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Sunday its police force had acquired evidence suggesting President Moshe Katsav had raped and molested women who worked for him...... "There is prima facie evidence of a number of incidents in which several women who worked under his authority were involved, that the president carried out sex crimes of rape, sexual molestation by force and without consent."

Katsav was also suspected of "a violation of a law against eavesdropping" and involvement in fraud, it said, summing up findings presented by a team of police investigators.

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