{"id":99595,"date":"2019-02-28T15:59:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T23:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=99595"},"modified":"2019-02-28T16:56:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T00:56:30","slug":"netanyahu-to-be-indicted-for-corruption-inked-to-adelson-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/netanyahu-to-be-indicted-for-corruption-inked-to-adelson-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Netanyahu to be Indicted for Corruption Linked to Sheldon Adelson Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benjamin Netanyahu will be indicted for fraud, bribery, and breach of trust, Israel\u2019s attorney general Avichai Mandelblit announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

\"Benjamin
Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to fight on in the face of an impending corruption indictment that will accuse him of leveraging his connections to Sheldon Adelson to negotiate more favorable media coverage. (Image: Ronen Zvulun\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The 69-year-old has dismissed the case against him as a \u201cleftist plot\u201d and as \u201cblood libel,\u201d and vowed that he will not step down if indicted — which he would be under no obligation to do, unless convicted.<\/p>\n

Accusations of corruption have dogged the Israeli Prime Minister since the late 1990s, and the investigation on which the expected charges are based has been going on for several years.<\/p>\n

Media Influencer <\/strong><\/h2>\n

These charges are centered around several core accusations, one of which involves LVS casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, a key Netanyahu ally<\/a> who owns the wildly pro-Netanyahu Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Investigators claim Netanyahu attempted to negotiate a deal with Arnon Mozes — publisher of leading Israeli daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth<\/em>\u00a0— to suppress its criticism of him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It\u2019s alleged he promised Mozes he would convince Adelson to reduce the circulation of Israel Hayom<\/em>\u00a0— a free paper that the LVS chairman operates at a loss — in return for more favorable coverage. Adelson has not been accused of any impropriety and has expressed dismay that the negotiation is alleged to have taken place.<\/p>\n

Packer\u2019s Largesse<\/strong><\/h2>\n

But he is not the only casino tycoon to have been dragged into the corruption probe. Crown Resorts\u2019 James Packer was interviewed at length<\/a> in 2016 about gifts he bestowed on the Netanyahu family, which included flights on his private jet, expensive cigars, and tickets to see Mariah Carey, to whom Packer was engaged at the time.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, police have said there could be sufficient evidence to charge Packer\u2019s friend and business associate, the Hollywood producer and former Mossad agent Arnon Milchan, with bribery for allegedly showering Netanyahu with \u201ccigars and pink champagne\u201d in return for political favors. Milchan denies any wrongdoing, as does Packer.<\/p>\n

Audio Evidence<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In 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>\n

The 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>\n

Yeshua 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. 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