Video: Renewal of passports without queue opens, hundreds arrive at offices: "There is still a lot of time to queue" (Yotam Ronen)
The Lahav 433 Cyber Unit and the Defense Ministry's Director of Security detained an employee of a company that provides services to the Biological Institute in Nes Ziona for questioning on Sunday morning on suspicion of using the Internet and computer system at his workplace at the institute to book hundreds of appointments for issuing passports and selling those appointments for money.
For the past two years, the Ministry of Interior has been dealing with the lack of queues for passport renewals at the Population and Immigration Offices. Recently, bureaus have opened in four major cities without queues to try to address the gap. About a month ago, the Lahav 433 Cyber Unit, in cooperation with the NSC, began an investigation after receiving information about the same company employee who deals with services to the Biological Institute in Nes Ziona.
The queues for passport renewal at the Tel Aviv office (Photo: Flash 90, Avshalom Shouni)
It is suspected that the company's employee used the Internet and computer system at the Biological Institute to schedule hundreds of appointments for issuing passports, and later sold the appointments in exchange for money.
Today, as stated, the investigation became open with the detention for interrogation of the suspect, a 25-year-old from Beitar Illit, and he was brought for interrogation at the unit's offices, at the end of which he will be brought to a hearing to extend his detention at the Rishon LeZion Magistrate's Court.
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