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State employees suspected of smuggling foreign workers into Israel
By Ruth Sinai, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Immigration Administration 

Immigration Administration investigators arrested eight residents of southern Israel Sunday for smuggling dozens of foreign workers into the country.

The eight are suspected of illegally brining the foreign workers to Israel and cheating them out of money.

The arrests mark the conclusion of a four-month-long covert investigation.
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A Ministry of Industry, Trade and Employment employee and a National Insurance Institute employee are among the suspects.

The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Employment is responsible for issuing work permits for foreign workers, while the National Insurance Institute is in charge of authorizing senior citizens and the handicapped to employ workers from overseas as nurses.

The suspects will be brought before The Ramle Magistrate's Court for the extension of their remand Sunday afternoon.

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