JERUSALEM, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- A former Israeli energy minister reportedly has admitted to trying to smuggle some 32,000 ecstasy pills into the country and forging a diplomatic passport.
Gonen Segev made the admission Sunday as part of a plea bargain, the Ha'aretz news service reported. As part of the deal, he will be sentenced to five years imprisonment and fined $27,500, all of which will be donated to a drug fighting group, the report said.
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Segev has been in jail since his arrest at Tel Aviv's airport last April over involvement in alleged international Ecstasy drug smuggling from the Netherlands.
