Politics | 9 September, 2009 [ 11:35 ]Former Israeli Official’s Assets Frozen in Peru
LivinginPeru.com
Katrina Heimark

Peru’s Anticorruption officer Jorge Chávez Cotrina informed
El Comercio that US$3.9 million dollars in bank accounts belonging to a former Israeli official were frozen yesterday.
Former Israeli judge Dan Cohen has an order of extradition from Israel, but Peru does not have an agreement with Israel that would allow them to extradite him.
Cohen was working in Peru as a university professor. It was feared that his wife would be able to flee with the money, and thus action was taken to freeze his assets.
The 67 year old is under investigation in Israel for corruption charges. While serving as manager of the Israel Electric Corporation, he allegedly accepted a bribe worth tens of millions of dollars from the German company Siemens. He fled to Peru four years ago.
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