A senior Mossad official serving in a foreign country was caught embezzling funds from the national intelligence agency, the N12 news site reported Monday evening.
The official had embezzled thousands of euros from the Mossad for a long period of time, the report said. After the embezzlement was discovered, the official was reportedly forced to return the money and leave the organization, it said.
Although the amount embezzled was not considered a large sum of money, institutional personnel operating in foreign countries are trusted to handle large sums of money, the report said. Once that trust had been broken, the organization was forced to act decisively, it said.