The submarine affair

A former ThyssenKrupp representative on the submarine affair: "It is impossible that Netanyahu did not know"

The company's representative in Israel until he was replaced by Mickey Ganor, who is accused in the affair, said in an interview with 103fm that the commission of inquiry should examine the sale of the submarines to Egypt, as well as his involvement in the case of Adv. David Shimron, his lawyer and former prime minister's associate

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24/01/2022

Monday, 24 January 2022, 08:49 Updated: 09:04

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In the video: The government voted in favor of establishing a state commission of inquiry into the submarine affair, members of the "Investigation Now" demonstrated outside the meeting (Photo: GPO and "Investigation Now")

Brigadier General (Res.) Shaike Barkat, who was ThyssenKrupp's representative in Israel until he was ousted and replaced by Miki Ganor, one of the key figures in the submarine affair, today (Monday) expressed satisfaction with the decision to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the affair. To

some aspects of the affair.

"Certainly I can not think such a thing.

It is not possible, "Barkat stated in an interview with 103fm. At

the center of the submarine affair, known as the 3000 case, are transactions worth billions of shekels for the purchase of submarines and vessels for the State of Israel from the German corporation ThyssenKrupp. A row of public figures and senior officers in the res. Who committed offenses of bribery and breach of trust.

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"It could not be that he did not know."

Netanyahu (Photo: Reuters)

In the conversation, Barkat said that the commission of inquiry should investigate the sale of the submarines to Egypt, as well as the involvement in the case of Adv. David Shimron, a lawyer and associate of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Indictment.

"My story is many years with the crew and the shipyards. My name in Germany was 'submarine lord' - that's what I was called in the German government. One day I am asked, 'Do you know that David [Shimron] is hanging out here?'. I asked, 'Who is this?', And they replied that he was a 'lawyer, a Netanyahu family member' and that he was always invited to lunch there. "I think it's something that needs to be explored to the end," Barkat said. "And when I say 'turn around' it's not once or twice. The guys were surprised that I did not know who it was. "

"He [Shimron] was a man who cooked with him all of Cheney's porridge and all the others. I don't want to get into that," he added.

"I know of Shimron who introduced himself as a family member, as a lawyer, as the prime minister's secret man - and that is a status with the Germans."

The government yesterday approved the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into submarines and vessels.

This is more than five years after suspicions of corruption in the purchase of submarines from Germany were first revealed.

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