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12 shares File: An Israeli Navy submarine sails in front of a Sa ar 5-class corvette in the waters south of Tel Aviv as part of the Israeli Navy s flotilla in honor of Israel s 70th Independence Day on April 19, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel) Four years after a probe was first launched, state prosecutors filed indictments Monday against suspects in a sprawling alleged corruption scandal involving the purchase of navy vessels worth hundreds of millions of dollars from a German shipbuilder. Alongside the indictments, cases were closed against David Shimron, cousin and former personal lawyer to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as former commander of the Israeli Navy Eliezer Marom, after prosecutors accepted their defenses at their respective pre-indictment hearings. ....
Follow 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; politica ....