Netanyahu’s Scandal: Suspected of Bribery, Fraud, Breach of Trust
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"Israeli" police have confirmed that the apartheid entity's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is suspected of having committed bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
Bibi is accused of offering commercial favors to a newspaper owner in return for positive coverage and of accepting bribes from a Hollywood billionaire.
Investigators have secured a gagging order as they try to persuade the politician's former chief of staff to testify in the cases. The order was granted and will remain in force until 17 September.
"We completely reject the unfounded claims made against the prime minister," they said. "The campaign to change the government is underway, but it is destined to fail, for a simple reason: there won't be anything because there was nothing."
"Israel's" Attorney General, Avichai Mendelblit, said talks with Netanyahu's former chief of staff, Ari Harow, about acting as a witness for the state were "making progress".
Netanyahu is accused of wrongdoing in two separate cases. The first, known as Case 1000, relates to his connections to billionaire Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan, who he is said to accepted thousands of pounds worth of lavish gifts from.
Reports suggest that, after receiving cigars and champagne, the Israeli Netanyahu lobbied then US Secretary of State John Kerry on Milchan's behalf while he was trying to acquire a new US visa.
In the other case, called Case 2000, he is accused of offering commercial favors to "Israeli" newspaper owner Arnon Mozes in return for more positive coverage. Mr Mozes owns Yedioth Ahronoth - one of entity's biggest newspapers. Netanyahu is said to have offered to cut the circulation of "Israel" Hayom, a pro-Netanyahu newspaper owned by US billionaire and Republican Party donor Sheldon Adelson, if Mozes told his paper to be more favorable towards the Prime Minister.
Harow is also suspected of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, along with aggravated fraud and money laundering. Recordings found on his phone of conversations between Netanyahu and Mozes are said to form the basis of the Case 2000 investigation.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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