{"id":1649,"date":"2017-11-09T14:51:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T15:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/israeli-police-interrogate-netanyahu-again-over-corruption-probe\/"},"modified":"2017-11-09T14:51:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T15:51:55","slug":"israeli-police-interrogate-netanyahu-again-over-corruption-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/israeli-police-interrogate-netanyahu-again-over-corruption-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli police interrogate Netanyahu again over corruption probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madaresharghi..com\">madaresharghi<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; width: 564.984px;\" readability=\"80\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tInterrogators from the so-called Lahav 433 anti-corruption unit arrived at Netanyahu\u2019s home on Thursday afternoon to question him over his involvement in police cases 1000 and 2000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tCase 1000 revolves around alleged illicit gifts given to Netanyahu and his family by different businessmen, most notably the Israeli-born Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tThe Israeli prime minister and his wife, Sara, have denied wrongdoing in the case, claiming that the value of the items was significantly lower than reported, and that they were only \u201ctrifles\u201d exchanged between close friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tCase 2000 focuses on an alleged clandestine deal made between Netanyahu and\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Yedioth Ahronoth\u00a0<\/em>publisher and owner Arnon \u201cNoni\u201d Mozes, in which the 68-year-old chairman of the Likud party promised Mozes he would support a bill to reduce the circulation of\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Yedioth\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>main commercial rival, the Hebrew-language freebie\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Israel Hayom<\/em>,\u00a0in exchange for favorable coverage of himself in\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Yedioth<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tThis is the fifth time that Israeli police investigators are grilling Netanyahu for corruption.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tReports emerged earlier this year that the president of the World Jewish Congress and Netanyahu\u2019s long-time ally, Ronald Lauder, had given the premier and his son gifts, including expensive suits. The accounts prompted Israeli police to interrogate the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tNetanyahu is currently under probe over suspicions that he accepted 1 million euros\u00a0(about $1.1 million) from accused French fraudster Arnaud Mimran for campaign funds during the\u00a02009\u00a0elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tThere are also calls for Netanyahu to be investigated for his role in a billion-dollar deal to purchase three submarines\u00a0from German shipbuilder\u00a0ThyssenKrupp\u00a0Marine Systems GmbH.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tNetanyahu&#8217;s personal lawyer and one of his closest confidants, David Shimron, reportedly represented the German company behind the\u00a0submarine\u00a0contract.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tThe Israeli prime minister, in an apparently unrelated case, is also subjected to accusations that he and his spouse misappropriated public funds to pay for private expenses, ranging from laundry to ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>madaresharghi Interrogators from the so-called Lahav 433 anti-corruption unit arrived at Netanyahu\u2019s home on Thursday afternoon to question him over his involvement in police cases 1000 and 2000. Case 1000 revolves around alleged illicit gifts given to Netanyahu and his family by different businessmen, most notably the Israeli-born Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan. 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