Authorities are investigating two police officers on suspicion of fabricating evidence, interfering with an investigation and conspiring to commit a crime, a police-probing body in the State Attorney’s Office said Wednesday.
Further details about the case were not provided.
However, the Ynet news site reported the pair are suspected of abusing their power to offer protection to an “intelligence target” in exchange for information, the Ynet news site reported.
The Department of Internal Police Investigations (DIPI) arrested one of the suspected officers after interrogating him, it said in a statement.
That officer was brought Wednesday morning to the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court for a remand hearing, at the end of which he was ordered to five more days of custody.
The second suspect was released to house arrest after his interrogation.
The investigation is ongoing, the DIPI noted.
Earlier this month, the Knesset advanced a bill that would give the justice minister effective control over the DIPI, and change the process for appointing its director.
Currently, the body is under the authority of professional prosecutors.
