 Tel Aviv, May. 25, 2004 Former
Minister Gonen Segev
at his attorney's offices. (Motti Kimche)
Ex-minister
Segev suspected of forging checks abroad By Yaakov Katz FORMER energy minister Gonen
Segev, recently charged with attempting to
smuggle 30,000 Ecstasy pills into Israel, can't
seem to get out of trouble. Police are
investigating two new fraud charges into the former
minister, including the forging of checks and their
deposit in a Czechoslovakian bank and the
fraudulent use of an Israeli credit card while in
Hong Kong. In the first of the investigations, Segev was
interrogated Monday regarding an Interpol request
from Israel Police to investigate the nature of two
checks, worth NIS ten million, allegedly forged by
Segev. The checks were discovered to be forged
after Segev deposited them in a Czechoslovakian
bank. The bankers became suspicious of the checks
due to their high amount and after inspecting them
more closely noticed that they were forged. Police said they are not yet sure whether
officers from the Central Investigation Unit in the
Tel Aviv District will travel to Czechoslovakia or
the evidence will be transferred to Israel to
continue the investigation. The second
investigation relates to Segev's alleged use of an
Israeli credit card after reporting it was
missing. Police suspect that Segev, during a trip to Hong
Kong in November 2003, reported that the card was
missing but carried on buying groceries with the
card and using it to take out cash from ATMs.
Police officers, close to the investigation, told
The Jerusalem Post, that they believe Segev
will be charged with credit card fraud and that it
is still too early to tell what the outcome of the
forged checks investigation will be. Upon returning to
Israel, Segev filed a several-thousand shekel
suit with the Isracrad credit card company in
order to retrieve the money that he said was
charged to the card following his report that it
went missing. However, an investigation launched
by the credit card company abroad revealed a
videotape of an ATM where Segev is seen using
the card to take out money after his report that
the card was stolen. After presented with the
evidence against him, Segev dropped the
suit. Segev told investigators during his
interrogation Monday that he made a mistake filing
the suit with the credit card company and that he
got mixed up with the dates. The new allegations
join the indictment filed against Segev, Mosher
Verner and Ariel Friedman, according to which, the
three tried smuggling the pills in candy wrappers
into Israel from the Netherlands. In addition to the drug charges, Segev, a
pediatrician by profession who after breaking away
from the right-wing Tsomet Party served as a
minister under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
in 1995, is also facing charges related to the use
of a forged diplomatic passport. Segev denies that he was involved in the drug
scheme, claiming that the bag full of drugs which
he left in an airport locker in Amsterdam was given
to him by Friedman, who asked that he transport a
bag filled with candies back to Israel and give it
to his family. Segev's attorney Ari Shamai
said that police decided to interrogate his client
regarding the checks and the credit card and
revealed details of the investigation to the press
in order to manipulate the outcome of the
trial. "The two stories have no basis and are based on
half-truths," Shamai said. "The fact that police
are at all investigating the cases and revealed
details to the media is an attempt to influence the
court which is scheduled to convene Thursday. They
are doing all of this in order to influence public
opinion and the court." 
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