Sharon May Face Bribery Charges
From Times Wire Reports
Israeli police have recommended indicting Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon on bribery and fraud charges, Israel Radio said. Police questioned Sharon last month about a 1997 trip he made to Russia as national infrastructure minister with businessman Avigdor Ben-Gal, a retired major-general. Police were investigating suspicions that Sharon tried to help Ben-Gal clinch a multimillion-dollar natural gas deal with Russia in exchange for false testimony from Ben-Gal in a libel suit Sharon had brought against an Israeli newspaper.
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