Police have questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara as part of a probe into a corruption case involving Israeli telecommunications company Bezeq.
Israeli Police investigators entered the Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem al-Quds on Friday morning, as his wife was interrogated in the city of Lod southeast of Tel Aviv.
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This is the first time that Netanyahu, whose four-term prime minister’s political survival is greatly at risk over corruption and bribery investigations, is being questioned over the affair, known as Case 4000.
Press TV reports: Israeli police assert that Bezeq owner Shaul Elovitch had instructed the Walla news website, which is fully owned by the telecom company, to provide favorable coverage of Netanyahu and his wife in return for favors from communications regulators. The company has denied wrongdoing.
Elovitch, his wife and two senior Netanyahu associates were recently arrested as part of the ongoing probe.
Meanwhile, protesters gathered outside Netanyahu’s residence, demanding his resignation.
“We want to see Netanyahu go to trial and, if needed, go to jail or go home. Let our people go free from all the corruption surrounding the administration and the head of it,” Shimrit Orr, a 72-year-old writer from Tel Aviv, said.
Some drivers touted their horns in support as they drove by.
“A prime minister under investigation cannot, and may not, take crucial decisions,” Shuki Cohen, a 63-year-old economist from Moshav Arugot, said.
Israeli police investigators have also been grilling Netanyahu for corruption over his involvement in cases 1000 and 2000.
Case 1000 revolves around alleged illicit gifts given to Netanyahu and his family by different businessmen, most notably the Israeli-born Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan.
The Israeli prime minister and his wife, Sara, have denied wrongdoing in the case, claiming that the value of the items was significantly lower than reported, and that they were only “trifles” exchanged between close friends.
Case 2000 focuses on an alleged clandestine deal made between Netanyahu and Yedioth Ahronoth publisher and owner Arnon “Noni” Mozes, in which the 68-year-old chairman of the Likud party promised Mozes he would support a bill to reduce the circulation of Yedioth’s main commercial rival, the Hebrew-language freebie Israel Hayom, in exchange for favorable coverage of himself in Yedioth.
Reports emerged recently that the president of the World Jewish Congress and Netanyahu’s long-time ally, Ronald Lauder, had given the premier and his son gifts, including expensive suits. The accounts prompted Israeli police to interrogate the prime minister.
Netanyahu is currently under probe over suspicions that he accepted 1 million euros (about $1.1 million) from accused French fraudster Arnaud Mimran for campaign funds during the 2009 elections.
There are also calls for Netanyahu to be investigated for his role in a billion-dollar deal to purchase three submarines from German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems GmbH.
Netanyahu’s personal lawyer and one of his closest confidants, David Shimron, reportedly represented the German company behind the submarine contract.
They wont crack them ,they wont get anything incriminating out of either of them .Theyd need the rack and the entire Tower of Londons assotrtment of interrogative and investigative technological tools, and garden implements ,to get more than a Heil mary out of them.
It’s not a real investigation……..it’s just something they are using to take attention away from something else.
The whole thing is scripted.
This is a plot by radical islam to discredit a man who loves his country and is doing everything he can to save it from Ithe despots of islam. Protect Israel or see the destruction and mayhem that you have never seen before.
Seek the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob first.
Israel is the most hated state on the face of the earth and for good reason!
Islam is not the problem……Judaism is.
If you are Pro Zionist…..then you are Anti American!
well said…..then again, it’s completely true…the most hated nation (is it a nation, no it’s a Zionist state)….on earth
BS!!
Israel the ones behind the 9/11 mass murders…………..yeah, what great friends they are!
BS!
Those people in Israel are not even real Jews they are imposters.
Nobody who’s paying attending can deny that Israel is no “real” friend to the US but to say Islam isn’t a problem is as asleep as they are. Maybe you should tell that to the family of the white Minnesota woman gunned down by a Muslim cop as she was REPORTING a crime…her “crime” was being out in public in her pajamas…so no, theyre great additions to our once great country. PS for all the pro Zionists please read the Talmud or a history of the Russian rebooting before commenting. Read the warnings from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson about letting Jews take pay in the American govt and it’s prescient. Watch a vid of an exCIA officer titled Israel is no friend of the US..Do something but repeat the same tied lies we were ALL brainwashed with
agreed, both are a problem….but Israel ‘poked’ the islam beast into coming out…..if that hadn’t happened, it would still be in it’s own den
Remember it is the Jews that are behind flooding immigrants into Europe to try to breed white Christians out of existence.
you need to getta grip of your brain mate and engage it in 1st gear, that would be a start
What’s a “brain mate”?
One look at that face and you know why he needed the money for hookers.
Sounds like the same kind of crap President Trump is having thrown at him.