Israeli prosecutors modify charges against Netanyahu
Jerusalem prosecutors modified the charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, revealing more details about one of the corruption cases against the controversial politician
In what is known as Case 4000, Jerusalem District Court prosecutors charged Netanyahu with assisting businessman Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder of the telecommunications giant Bezeq, with $ 280 million and listed more than 300 incidents in which the Prime Minister allegedly had lobbied for regulatory decisions in favor of the media mogul in exchange for positive coverage from one of Elovitch’s news websites called Walla.
In response to Netanyahu’s lawyers, who asked for more details, prosecutors said that there had been 315 cases where Walla was allegedly asked to be nice to Netanyahu and his family in their reports.
The Prime Minister, according to prosecutors, was allegedly personally involved in approximately 1 In some cases, Netanyahu asked the news outlet to positively promote his wife Sara and hide the expenses from her and the family and, in other cases, asked for unfavorable reports to be made on the families of his political rivals, according to prosecutors.
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Netanyahu described the prosecution’s accusations as propaganda, noting that they caused the “balloon in Case 4000 to explode.”
he wrote on his Facebook wall that it was obvious that prosecutors just wanted to “stitch up a case for a strong right-wing prime minister.” Israel’s attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit, charged Netanyahu in November 2019 with bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, based on police accusations that he granted hundreds of millions of dollars worth of state favors to a media mogul. Israelis in exchange for gifts and favorable coverage.
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