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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
Mar. 17, 2021
Documents submitted by David Shimron – a close associate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his personal attorney – reveal that Shimron had much wider business dealings than previously known with Michael Ganor, a central figure in Case 3000.
Shimron submitted the documents to investigators in order to prove that he only acted as Ganor’s lawyer, not his business partner, in the state’s $1.5 billion purchase of submarines and patrol boats from German industrial group ThyssenKrupp. The transactions are at the heart of an alleged massive bribery scheme known as 3000. The documents helped get the main accusations against Shimron dropped.
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