Police have arrested a senior fundraising official at Aid 48, a nonprofit affiliated with the Ra'am party, on suspicion of involvement in an election bribery scandal.
Police suspect that the individual took part in a scheme in which voters were paid to support Ra'am, the party headed by Mansour Abbas.
In a separate case, three residents of Bedouin communities in the Negev were arrested overnight Monday into Tuesday on suspicion of planning to hand out cash to citizens in exchange for votes for Ra'am. Israel Police searched homes in Segev Shalom and Ar'ara in the Negev. Police said the raids turned up envelopes holding tens of thousands of shekels in cash, along with notes and other material believed to be linked to the alleged offences.
