The political system responds to the suspicion in the submarine affair: "Another sad day"

After the State Attorney's office announced the decision to prosecute at a hearing involving key participants in the 3000 case for bribery and money laundering, they called on the political system to set up an investigative committee on the matter. Blue and White Chairman: "I did not believe I would hear the words corruption and security of Israel together." MK Shmuli: "A heavy shadow over Netanyahu's functioning"

The political system responds to the suspicion in the submarine affair: "Another sad day"

The political system criticized the filing of suspicion Thursday against those involved in the submarine case for bribery and breach of trust and even called for an investigation committee to investigate the matter. "As someone who has served in the defense system for 38 years, I did not believe that I would hear the words corruption and Israeli security being said together," said Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz in response to the suspicion. "Another sad day."

Earlier, the State Prosecutor's Office announced to the submarine case that former Navy commander Eliezer Marom Cheney and Mickey Ganor would be charged with bribery subject to a hearing. Also related is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's lawyer David Shamron to be charged with money laundering. At the center of portfolio 3000 are deals worth billions of shekels for the purchase of submarines and vessels for the State of Israel from the German corporation "Thyssenkrupp". According to the suspicion, the deals in question were influenced on the Israeli side by a series of public figures and senior officers who committed crimes of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, and sought to cut out huge coupons.

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"There are other strata that will still have to go down in the future" (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

Israeli Navy Submarines (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

Former Defense Minister MK Moshe (Boogie) Ya'alon (blue-and-white) promised that his party would set up an investigative committee on the issue. "I said today, too - the submarine procurement and craft affair is the most serious corruption affair in the country, in the security field. A blue-and-white government will set up an investigative committee whose purpose is to expose the truth on issues that have not been thoroughly investigated, and to Netanyahu in particular (such as the approval of the sale of advanced submarines to Egypt, concealing the defense minister and chief of staff). Serious indictments are filed against Netanyahu's closest associates. Didn't know? The questions I asked the Supreme Court in November 2018, after the police investigation, were still unanswered. "

MK MK Itzik Shmuli, chairman of the Labor-Gesher faction, said there are still questions open to the affair. "The submarine affair centered on a dirty deal in the national security trade for making shocking and unpopular money. The fact that Netanyahu's immediate environment was part of this, too, casts a heavy shadow on his role as prime minister. There are other layers that will be needed in the future as part of a state commission of inquiry. To poignant questions that are still open and disturbing to the public. "