Cops question Israeli PM for fifth time in corruption case

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been in power since 2000. File picture: Ariel Schalit/AP

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been in power since 2000. File picture: Ariel Schalit/AP

Published Nov 9, 2017

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Jerusalem - Israeli police questioned Prime

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday for the fifth time over

suspicions of corruption, Israeli media reported.

A Reuters cameraman saw police investigators arrive by car

late in the day to Netanyahu's official residence, where

previous interrogations have taken place.

Officials with the police and Netanyahu's office declined to

comment to Reuters on their visit, but Israel media, without

citing sources, widely reported he was being questioned again.

No charges have been brought against Netanyahu, who has been

in power since 2009 and has denied wrongdoing.

He is a suspect in two cases, one involving the receipt of

gifts from businessmen and the other related to conversations he

held with an Israeli newspaper publisher about limiting

competition in the news sector in exchange for more positive

coverage.

Police said earlier this week that a top Netanyahu confidant

had been questioned as part of a different investigation into a

$2 billion submarine deal with Germany. 

Reuters

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