The police’s national fraud unit has launched an investigation into suspicions that Teva Pharmaceutical Industries bribed officials abroad a month and a half after the company settled a similar case in the United States.
Police detained six people for questioning on Monday morning, including a number of former senior public officials, suspected of corruption in the potentially fraudulent purchase of naval vessels from Germany.
MK Oren Hazan of Likud on Tuesday strongly denied a Channel 2 report that he committed crimes, decrying the “sick imaginations” of the media.
The Tel Aviv District Prosecutor’s Office has attacked Channel 1 for airing an investigative story about a deadly 2005 traffic accident that implies that the state covered up crucial evidence in the case.
The police are investigating the case of a man who fled abroad, died there and whose body was brought back to Israel and buried under a false identity.
The Israel Tax Authority has a list of 8,000 Israelis with accounts in HSBC Switzerland. Arrests are imminent.
The driver of the bus involved in a collision that left 6 people dead Sunday night was ordered kept in custody for three days, on suspicion of negligent manslaughter and of tampering with the investigation of the accident.
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein is examining information received by police regarding Brig. Gen. (Res.) Gal Hirsch, recently nominated as Israel police chief, and the possibility that Hirsch broke the law by engaging in money laundering.
What we last week called the steady drip-drip-drip of disclosures from the widening probes into Mayor de Blasio’s fund-raising has now erupted into an enormous gushing stream.
An Iranian state-owned firm has substantial shares in the German shipping giant that is supplying the Israeli navy with submarines, a newspaper in Israel reported.
