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Nature 412, 469 (2 August 2001) | doi:10.1038/35087729

Weizmann finance chief embezzled $5 million

Haim Watzman

An official at the Weizmann Institute of Science has confessed to pocketing US$5 million from one of the institute's fund-raising organizations in Europe.Israeli police say that some of the money, taken from the Zurich-based European Committee of the Weizmann Institute of Science, was channelled through the GSI, a national research institute in Darmstadt, Germany.