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Brit Rabbi Accused of Swapping Cocaine for Sexual Favors
A rabbi in Britain has been accused of setting up business as a drug dealer and of supplying cocaine to young prostitutes at parties in exchange for sexual favors.
Rabbi Baruch Chalomish, 54, bearded and wearing a trilby hat, stood at the dock in Manchester Crown Court with an interpreter, who occasionally translated the barristers' words into Hebrew.
The prosecution said that Chalomish was a wealthy man who took up with Nasir Abbas, 54, a convicted dealer, who had the "knowhow" and the contacts in the drug trade, and that the rabbi was the financier in the operation.
They set up their "commercial cocaine-supply operation" in an hotel service flat in Shudehill, Manchester, where, it is alleged, Chalomish liked to dispense the drug in return for "sexual favors".
Chalomish, a part of Greater Manchester's Orthodox Jewish community, denies two charges of supplying cocaine but admits two counts of possession.
Abbas, who did not turn up for the trial, faces charges of possessing the Class A controlled drug with intent to supply.
When police raided the flat in January they found evidence of a substantial drug operation, including bottles and bags containing the drug and paraphernalia used to cut it for sale, cutting agents, rolled-up 20 pound notes, "snap bags" and credit cards.
Michael Goldwater, opening for the prosecution, told the jury that police found a set of digital scales in a canvas bag in the kitchen that was used for weighing the drug.
Rabbi Baruch Chalomish, 54, bearded and wearing a trilby hat, stood at the dock in Manchester Crown Court with an interpreter, who occasionally translated the barristers' words into Hebrew.
The prosecution said that Chalomish was a wealthy man who took up with Nasir Abbas, 54, a convicted dealer, who had the "knowhow" and the contacts in the drug trade, and that the rabbi was the financier in the operation.
They set up their "commercial cocaine-supply operation" in an hotel service flat in Shudehill, Manchester, where, it is alleged, Chalomish liked to dispense the drug in return for "sexual favors".
Chalomish, a part of Greater Manchester's Orthodox Jewish community, denies two charges of supplying cocaine but admits two counts of possession.
Abbas, who did not turn up for the trial, faces charges of possessing the Class A controlled drug with intent to supply.
When police raided the flat in January they found evidence of a substantial drug operation, including bottles and bags containing the drug and paraphernalia used to cut it for sale, cutting agents, rolled-up 20 pound notes, "snap bags" and credit cards.
Michael Goldwater, opening for the prosecution, told the jury that police found a set of digital scales in a canvas bag in the kitchen that was used for weighing the drug.
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