US denies intervening in case of Israeli official accused of Nevada sex crime

By Kanishka Singh and Raphael Satter

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department said on Monday the American government played no role in the release of an Israeli official charged with soliciting sex electronically from a minor.

Tom Artiom Alexandrovich was one of eight people charged last week following an undercover operation “targeting child sex predators,” the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said in a statement issued last week.

Alexandrovich faces a felony charge of luring or…