TIL Desk/World/Jerusalem/ The Israeli police on Tuesday recommended that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. The police said that there was enough evidence to prosecute the Prime Minister on allegations that he had accepted lavish gifts from wealthy businessmen and also tried to negotiate a corrupt deal with a newspaper publisher.
Netanyahu is charged with accepting bribes worth one million shekels. The Prime Minister repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, and in a defiant address on Tuesday night, said that he would not resign over baseless police recommendations. “Nothing will divert me from my commitment to the good of the nation.
I have not known a day in office without vicious allegations against me and my family,” Netanyahu as saying. The first probe against the Prime Minister focused on claims that he and his family illegally accepted extravagant gifts including champagne and cigars from Arnon Milchan, an Israeli Hollywood producer, and James Packer, an Australian millionaire.
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