Israeli minister in drugs admission

A FORMER Israeli cabinet minister has admitted he tried to smuggle 30,000 ecstasy tablets into Israel from the Netherlands and faces up to five years in jail.

Gonen Segev, energy and infrastructure minister from 1992 to 1995, forged an extension of his expired diplomatic passport and concealed the drugs in packages of M&M chocolates.

Segev, a 49-year-old physician, was arrested in Israel last April.