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Milchan said to have boasted that PM arranged for Mossad to take him to Jordan via private jet
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA former close adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told police investigators that an Israeli billionaire boasted the premier agreed to arrange for the Mossad to take him to neighboring Jordan by helicopter.
Nir Hefetz, who was the Netanyahu family’s most trusted spokesman, turned state’s witness last year in a series of corruption investigations implicating the prime minister.
One of the probes Hefetz provided testimony in is Case 1000, which involves suspicions Netanyahu and his wife accepted gifts from wealthy benefactors in exchange for favors, namely Israeli-born Hollywood mogul Arnon Milchan.
According to transcripts of his testimony published by Channel 12, Hefetz said that Milchan told him Netanyahu would arrange for the Mossad intelligence service to take him and a leading Indian businessmen by helicopter to meet with the Jordanian king regarding the planned establishment of a free trade zone near the Jordan-Israel border that could have personally benefited Milchan.
The Times of Israel Community.