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Consultant Convicted of Bribery Mediation in Submarine Affair

A Tel Aviv court convicted Yitzhak (Tzachi) Liber, a media consultant, of mediating bribery, money laundering, and falsifying records in the submarine affair. Liber received over 93,000 shekels from Miki Ganor, intended as a bribe for David Sharann, a former senior official in the Prime Minister's Office.

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What happened

  1. 01Consultant Yitzhak (Tzachi) Liber convicted of mediating bribery in the submarine affair.
  2. 02Liber received 93,900 shekels from Miki Ganor for bribes to David Sharann.
  3. 03Court rejected Liber's claims of coerced confessions, deeming them truthful.
  4. 04Payments were disguised as consulting fees through shell companies and false invoices.
  5. 05Liber convicted of bribery mediation, money laundering, and false accounting.
  6. 06Ruling is part of the larger submarine affair investigation.

The court rejected Liber's claims that his confessions were coerced, finding them to be truthful and supported by other evidence. Liber was convicted of one count each of bribery mediation, illicit property dealings, and aiding in false accounting.

Translated and summarized by baba from Kikar HaShabbat, the latest report. Read Kikar HaShabbat’s original

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