Israeli PM Netanyahu faces fresh questions in corruption probe

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the General Debate of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York. File picture: Qin Lang/Xinhua

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the General Debate of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York. File picture: Qin Lang/Xinhua

Published Oct 5, 2018

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Jerusalem - Israeli police questioned Prime

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the 12th time on Friday in

connection with a long-running corruption investigation, various

local media reported.

Footage on private broadcaster Channel 10 showed police

investigators entering Netanyahu's official residence in

Jerusalem. Police and the prime minister's office declined to

comment.

Army Radio said the focus on Friday would be on two cases in

which police have recommended indictments against him.

One deals with gifts allegedly given to Netanyahu and his

family, and the other with claims that he discussed getting

better coverage in one of Israel's largest newspapers in return

for curbs on a free daily competitor.

No charges have been brought against the Israeli leader, who

denies any wrongdoing and has called the allegations baseless.

It will be up to Israel's attorney general to decide whether

to file charges. Partners in Netanyahu’s governing coalition

have stood by him, saying they are awaiting the attorney

general's next moves.

Netanyahu has also been questioned in a third case in which

police allege that the owners of Israel’s largest telecom

company provided favourable coverage of him and his wife on a

news website they controlled in return for special treatment

favours from communications regulators. 

Reuters

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