Netanyahu under investigation in telecoms corruption case

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Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu

Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday for the first time in a corruption case that involves the country’s largest telecommunications company Bezeq, Israel Radio said.

Police allege that the owners of Bezeq Telecom provided favorable coverage of Netanyahu and his wife on a news website they controlled, in return for favors from communications regulators.

Netanyahu, already a suspect in two other corruption cases, denies any wrongdoing. A police spokesman did not respond to requests for comment.

A Reuters cameraman saw a vehicle carrying two police officers pull into the prime minister’s official residence.

Israel’s State Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday directly implicated, for the first time,
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