Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been battling corruption allegations in connection to a few instances, together with accusations that he accepted costly presents from rich businessmen in return for private favours.
The workplace of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is asking Benjamin Netanyahu, who was ousted as chief in June, to “return the entire presents” he was given throughout his 12-year tenure as PM, in response to the Maariv newspaper.
Nevertheless, evidently the previous prime minister isn’t keen to take action, as dozens of the gifted gadgets apparently cannot be positioned, Netanyahu’s aide claims.
General, Netanyahu has been ordered to return 42 presents belonging to the State of Israel, the report says.
The authorized advisor to the Prime Minister’s Workplace – Shlomit Barnea – is alleged to have penned the ex-PM a letter in August asking for not less than 27 of the presents – which are allegedly not misplaced – to be returned. Amongst them is a a replica of the Bible with the primary commentary by Rashi gifted to Netanyahu by Russian President Vladimir Putin, as nicely as a replica of the paperwork ordering the switch of the US Embassy to Jerusalem signed by Donald Trump.
“With the tip of time period as prime minister you had been alleged to return the entire presents you acquired throughout your time period… within the situation they got, apart from affordable put on and tear as a result of passage of time,” Barnea reportedly wrote within the letter, in response to a translation by The Occasions of Israel.
Netanyahu, who in June was dethroned by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid’s coalition, lastly moved out of the PM’s residence in Jerusalem final month. He is dealing with expenses of bribery, fraud, and breach of belief in three separate instances.