Netanyahu: ‘I didn’t get a shekel from the submarine deal’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls accusations of impropriety on his part in Israel’s submarine deals with Germany “contrived slander.”

According to a Channel 13 report last week the State Comptroller’s Office has discovered that Netanyahu was once a shareholder in a company that supplies German shipbuilder Thyssenkrupp, which has built submarines for Israel.

“I didn’t get a shekel from the submarine deal,” the premier tells local authority leaders in the West Bank settlement of Shiloh.

“This was checked extensively by the prosecution and the attorney general. They stated unequivocally that I am not suspected of anything.”

He says the Blue and White party’s accusations that he has been implicated in “the greatest security-related corruption case in the history of the State of Israel” is a result of “panic” by party leaders Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid.