Audio Evidence<\/strong><\/h2>\nIn 2016, rumors that Packer and Milchan — unnamed at the time — were being scrutinized in a corruption investigation involving Netanyahu inadvertently led to the discovery of the most serious allegation: that Netanyahu offered regulatory favors to the country\u2019s largest telecoms firm, Bezeq, in return for positive coverage on its popular news site, Walla.<\/em><\/p>\nThe rumors prompted the prime minister\u2019s then-media advisor, Nir Hefetz, to assume wrongly that investigators were probing relationships between Netanyahu and Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder in Bezeq, and Ilan Yeshua, Walla<\/em> CEO.<\/p>\nYeshua recorded subsequent discussions between the three men on his phone, which he later handed to police when he was called to testify against Elovitch in a separate fraud case.<\/p>\n
If charged, it would be the first time that a sitting Israeli prime minister has been indicted for corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Benjamin Netanyahu will be indicted for fraud, bribery, and breach of trust, Israel\u2019s attorney general Avichai Mandelblit announced Thursday. The news comes just weeks before Israel\u2019s general elections, which would see Netanyahu become the country\u2019s longest-serving prime minister, were he to win. The 69-year-old has dismissed the case against him as a \u201cleftist plot\u201d and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":99597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Netanyahu to be Indicted for Corruption inked to Adelson Newspaper<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n