State prosecution revealed that there were at least three instances where a probe by the cyber police unit seized cell phone data beyond what was approved by court order.
Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was right when six years ago he urged accelerating the acquisition of the three submarines from Germany. That didn’t happen due t
Israel’s government voted on Sunday in favour of the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into the purchase of submarines for the Navy, which was allegedly entangled with corruption. With a majority of 26 ministers who voted in favour, one who voted against, and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett who abstained, the mission will probe…
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May. 10, 2021
Israel’s district attorney for taxation and economics indicted on Monday several former officials and executives in the so-called submarine affair, a multimillion dollar submarine deal with German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp, which police looked into possible wrongdoing involving the shipbuilder s local representative.
The indictment states that Thyssenkrupp had paid its representative about ten million euros as a commission for deals signed between Israel and ThyssenKrupp. The representative is charged with violating the money laundering law as well as tax evasions.
Those indicted include Michael Ganor, who served as a representative for the German conglomerate, ThyssenKrupp, in Israel; Avriel Bar-Yosef, the former deputy director of the National Security Council; David Sharan, former director of the Prime Minister’s Office; Eliezer Zandberg, former chairman of Keren Hayesod; businessman Shai Brosh, a former navy commando head; political adviser Rami
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Prime Minister Netanyahu at the inauguration of the new submarine Rahav at the Israeli navy base in Haifa, January 12, 2016.
The Tax and Economics division at the Prosecutorâs Office announced Monday that it was closing the cases against Adv. David Shimron and former Navy Commander Maj. Gen. Eliezer Marom who were suspected in a corruption case that involved receiving bribes, money laundering, tax evasion and fraud.
The case, dubbed Case 3000, alleges that senior Israeli officials received bribes in exchange for their promotion of the acquisition of a Dolphin-class submarine for Israelâs navy from the German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp.