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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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.