(MENAFN) 18 Education Ministry officials have been detained in Israel, including senior administrators, over suspicions of corruption and fraud totaling more than NIS 20 million, Jerusalem Post reported Monday.
The officials are suspected of inflating the number of hours they spent grading both oral and written exams, receiving additional payment from an external company that is financed by the education ministry.
Police launched a covert investigation some three months ago after receiving a complaint by the ministry, which had conducted an internal review raising suspicions of serious irregularities in the markup of final exams by the suspects.
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