Israeli police have recommended that Interior Minister Aryeh Deri be charged with fraud in a major corruption case.
"The findings of the investigation are that there is an evidentiary basis against Deri that he committed fraud and breach of trust in connection with his conduct while serving as a minister," a police statement said.
It said there was also evidence of tax offenses amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars and money laundering, among others.
The long-running investigation looked into large money transfers to Deri linked to land sales, police said.
The attorney general will now decide whether to charge Deri.
The minister proclaimed his innocence and noted that previous allegations of bribe-taking were not included in the police recommendation.
Police have questioned Deri and his wife on suspicion of receiving illicit payments from businessmen. They deny any crimes were committed.
Deri was previously sentenced to three years in prison for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in 2000 during his previous stint as interior minister in the 1990s.
He served 22 months in prison but made a political comeback and retook the reins of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party in 2013.
These are the latest corruption allegations to hit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.
Police have recommended charges against Netanyahu in two separate corruption probes and the attorney general is expected to decide in the coming months whether to charge him.
In another investigation, police said earlier this month there was evidence to charge a lawyer for Netanyahu and the former head of his office, among others, with bribery linked to the purchase of German submarines.
Netanyahu was questioned as a witness and not a suspect in that case.
