Following years of investigation and scores of hours sitting before the feared fraud squad, Israeli police have formally recommended that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu be indicted in one of four bribery investigations. At issue are allegations that Netanyahu entered deals with a businessman who controls Bezeq, the nation’s largest telecommunications company to trade regulatory favors worth millions of dollars for lenient or even positive coverage in organs the prime minister deemed to be hostile toward him. The recommendation to indict extends to the PM’s wife, Sara – also a frequent target of media animus. The charges stem from a period of time during which Netanyahu not only served as prime minister, but reserved the communications portfolio for himself as well. The recommendation extended to businessman Shaul Elovitch and his wife, along with a number of Bezeq executives.
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