| Ma'ariv Tel Aviv, Monday, May 10, 2004 Former
Minister Gonen Segev
at his attorney's offices. (Motti Kimche)
 Former
Minister charged with drug smuggling
Indictment filed
against Gonen Segev for attempting to smuggle
30,000 ecstasy pills from Holland to Israel and
with using an expired passport. by Adi Shalem FORMER Minister of Science and
Energy, Gonen Segev was indicted Sunday on
charges of possession of drugs, attempting to
smuggle drugs and conspiring to commit a crime.
Other indictments were filed at the Tel-Aviv
District court against Segev's cousin, Moshe
Werner, and
attorney
Ariel Freedman for their alleged part in the
affair. Segev is also charged with using an expired
passport -- about a month ago he presented the
Dutch Border Authorities with a diplomatic passport
from the period he served as a minister. Segev was
briefly detained by the Dutch authorities over the
expired passport but was then released and allowed
to continue his journey to Israel. The day after
Segev landed in Tel-Aviv he was already on his way
back to Amsterdam. A couple of days later, when he
tried to go back to Israel, the Dutch authorities
grew suspicious and detained him for questioning
again. Dutch police found a large suspicious parcel in
Segev's bag. Segev claimed that attorney Freedman
had asked him to transport a
package of candies (M&Ms) from Holland
to Israel. The Dutch released Segev and sent him on
his way after alerting their Israeli counterparts
that he would soon be arriving at Ben Gurion
International airport in Tel-Aviv. Segev rented a
locker at the Amsterdam airport, stashed his bag
there and returned to Israel. Israeli police conducted an undercover
investigation and discovered that the bag contained
over 30,000 ecstasy pills. The investigation was
exposed after Freedman tried to leave Israel. At
that stage, police arrested Segev who claimed that
he believed the bag contained candy. Police say there are repeated contradictions in
Segev's testimony. In addition, police say Segev
forged the date of his
expired diplomatic passport so that he could bypass
security and smuggle the drugs into
Israel. 
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halted
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passports
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counterfeit Canadian documents
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Israeli secret service agents have been arrested
in Auckland trying to obtain a false New Zealand
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