Yehuda and Avital Peled confess in a plea bargain. The prosecutor will ask that Yehuda Peled serve a prison sentence; the defence wants a community service sentence.
Yehuda Peled, the Israel Defence Forces' former military attache and head of the security delegation in Singapore who held the rank of Brigadier-General (between July 1989 and August 1993), and his wife Avital, who worked as an administrative officer in the military attache's office, were convicted today in a plea bargain for obtaining by fraud a sum of some $44,000 from the Ministry of Defence, under aggravating circumstances.
The prosecution attributed to the defendants the theft of some $90,000 from the Ministry of Defence in the original bill of indictment.
In the framework of the plea bargain it was determined that the accused would confess to revised indictments in the bill and would be convicted accordingly. The prosecution will ask for a sentence of one year imprisonment for Yehuda Peled and a community service sentence for Avital Peled. The accused will seek community service. The plea bargain also determines that the accused will return the $44,000 amount to the Ministry of Defence.