Earlier this month, t he Handelsblatt , the leading German business newspaper, has published a report on the Thyssenkrupp Israeli submarine scandal : [ii]
Israeli" Police allege six suspects are guilty of mo ney laundering and bribery, after a two-year investigation...
The long-running investigation reaches directly into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's entourage... David Schimron, Netanyahu's cousin and personal lawyer, is implicated...
Much of the evidence is derived from ThyssenKrupp's middleman, Miki Ganor, who turned state's witness in exchange for a lesser sentence. Ganor is a confidant of Schimron...
...Israel's military leadership was against the purchase, saying the country does not need new submarines, but Mr. Netanyahu apparently pushed the deal through.
The German government will pay a third of the sum for the subs... but only if bribery charges are cleared. As taxpayer funds are involved, all sides have to look into allegations of corruption very carefully...
The Thyssenkrupp shipbuilding division has already implicated in bribery in South Africa and Turkey...
What does UK press say?
The Defence Chronicle reports on the Thyssenkrupp Israeli submarine scandal under a funny title: [iii]
[Submarines] for Israel: a torpedo called Ganor
Then, Defence Chronicle says:
Everyone knew Shimron was part of the deal, including the Defence Ministry director-general and legal adviser... There is no way Netanyahu didn't know... Netanyahu not knowing about the sub deal is fake news.
What does Israeli press say?
Earlier this month, media reported that the Shimron law firm has removed any mention of PM Netanyahu from their web page. [iv] Until then, the tight relationship between the law firm and the PM had been prominently advertised.
A few days ago, Ynet published an alarming report: [v]
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Ynet repeated the general ly held opinion in Israel - t hat the Israeli investigation into the Thyssenkrupp scandal was whitewa shed because of concerns that Germany would call off the deal, based on the 2017 "no corruption" provision.
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