Katsav loses rape appeal
Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously rejected former president Moshe Katsav's appeal against the he Tel Aviv District Court's decision to convict him of two counts of rape and other sexual offences.
The disgraced former preident and Likud MK and minister will start a seven-year prison sentence on December 7.
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The justices agreed that Katsav had lied when insisting that his sexual relations with the former Tourism Ministry employee, A., were consensual, thus validating her allegations of rape.
Katsav was sentenced this past March to seven years in prison, three months after the Tel Aviv District Court found him of two counts of rape, as well as other sexual offenses against various subordinates during his terms as tourism minister and president.
Katsav decided to appeal the rape conviction and claimed that the sexual relations had with the complainant were consensual.
The Supreme Court panel heard the case in three days of hearings in mid-August. Before that, Supreme Court Justice Yoram Danziger decided to delay Katsav's imprisonment until the court's ruling on the appeal.
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