Authorities are investigating two police officers on suspicion of fabricating evidence, interfering with an investigation and conspiring to commit a crime, a police-probing body in the State Attorney’s Office said Wednesday.

Further details about the case were not provided.

However, the Ynet news site reported the pair are suspected of abusing their power to offer protection to an “intelligence target” in exchange for information, the Ynet news site reported.

The Department of Internal Police Investigations (DIPI) arrested one of the suspected officers after interrogating him, it said in a statement.

That officer........

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