Watchdog: 45% of Netanyahu's flights as finance minister funded twice

State Comptroller Yosef Shapira says almost half (45%) of Netanyahu’s flights abroad during his stint as finance minister were funded twice — once by the Treasury and again by a foreign entity, individual or organization, Channel 10 reports.

The state comptroller also says that every one of the trips by Netanyahu while he was serving as finance minister showed financial abnormalities, such as using excess funds from one aspect of a trip to pay for other parts of it.

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert, who is currently serving a 19-month prison sentence for corruption, was also accused of double-billing trips while he was mayor of Jerusalem and during his time as industry minister. He was acquitted of those charges in 2012.