Netanyahu challenger's failed company faces criminal probe

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Israeli prosecutors say they are opening a criminal investigation into the failed start-up of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's challenger, shaking up what has already been a tumultuous election campaign.

Benny Gantz, Blue and White party leader, speaks during an election campaign event of his Blue and White party in Haifa , Israel, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020.

Gantz’s Blue and White Party is in a tight race with Netanyahu’s Likud. The March 2 vote comes just two weeks before Netanyahu’s corruption trial is to begin. “It all sounds like political pressure to get this thing on the public’s agenda,” Gantz told Israel’s Army Radio. “I am totally at ease. This was checked in the past and no criminal suspicion was found.”Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz denied wrongdoing on Thursday after media reports said an investigation would be launched into an allegedly shady deal between a company he once headed and Israeli police.

Israel goes to the polls on March 2, the third vote in less than a year after two elections in 2019 ended inconclusively, with neither Netanyahu or Gantz able to forge a coalition government. Pre-election surveys have predicted similar results in next month’s vote, potentially extending the deadlock.

After retiring from the army, Gantz headed the Fifth Dimension, a cybersecurity company that entered talks with Israeli police over the sale of its product. According to Israel’s statecomptroller, a governmental watchdog, the police may have violated acquisition laws by forgoing a tender in its dealings with the company.

 

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Uh oh here comes the reign again

sounds familiar... one wins, then investigates the other

In Israel corruption breeds Prime Ministets. Bibi has already been indicted. His opponent might be indicted. Bibi has created a Banana Republic much like his Gulf Arab friends.

How Trumpian!

Let's trade, you get Trump and we'll take Benjamin Netanyahu, Let's make a deal! England wouldn't give us Boris Johnson for a trade.

This goes on to prove Trump's beliefs that any Jew can be purchased. I like Benny Gantz alot more than Bibi even though Benny is a hardliner of a different sort.

Netanyahu is trumps twin

No worries, Trump will pardon him.

Sound familiar

Israeli 'Clinton emails'

Bibi called and asked if he can borrow Barr and McConnell for a few months.

America: We are a banana republic Israel: Hold my beer

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