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Court records indicate that Sartov committed the offense in 2004 while he was deputy head of the investigation unit of the Eilat district police. His conviction in Eilat Magistrate’s Court was based on his admission of wrongdoing. According to the testimony, Sartov found his victim in a taxi that he had stopped while he was on patrol in the city. He suspected her of being in Israel illegally and of being a sex worker. He ordered the woman to get into his police car and drove her to a secluded spot, where he forced her to have sexual contact with him, knowing that she was subject to deportation. He was convicted of having oral sex with her without her consent.