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Source: http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=168375
PA Issues Arrest Warrant for Anti-Corruption Whistleblower
(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday issued a warrant for the arrest of former intelligence official Fahmi Shabaneh for "collaboration" with Israel. Shabaneh, who was in charge of the anti-corruption unit in the Palestinian General Intelligence Service, was forced to quit his job after revealing dozens of cases of financial, administrative and sexual corruption among PA leader Mahmoud Abbas' inner circle. Shabaneh presented the Jerusalem Post with hundreds of documents implicating many of Abbas' close aides in embezzlement, land theft and fraud. He also showed video footage of Rafik Husseini, the director of Abbas' bureau, in the bedroom of a Christian woman from Jerusalem who had sought work with the PA. Shabaneh said that he decided to talk to the Post after Palestinian, Arab and foreign media organizations refused to interview him out of fear of being "punished" by the PA.