Channel 2 says police are moving from a preliminary inquiry to a full criminal investigation into the so-called submarines affair.
The case involves suspicions that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal attorney David Shimron, while representing the prime minister, lobbied the Defense Ministry to purchase naval vessels from German shipbuilder Thyssenkrupp, including new submarines for Israel’s navy and ships intended to protect the country’s maritime natural gas fields.
Netanyahu is not a suspect in the case.
That inquiry has transformed into a criminal probe, Channel 2 claims Wednesday, purportedly after police received the testimony of former Israel Navy commander Maj. Gen. (res.) Ram Rothberg in recent days.
The report says Shimron, businessman Mickey Ganor and Maj. Gen. (res.) Eliezer Marom are all being questioned under caution in the affair.
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