Netanyahu Has Links with ’French Fraud Brain’

Local Editor

A report exposed "Israeli" PM Benjamin Netanyahu's shady relations with a French individual considered by French prosecutors as the "brain" behind one of the biggest frauds in history.

According to a recent report by French news website Mediapart, which was obtained by "Israeli" newspaper Haaretz, Netanyahu had affiliations with French national Arnaud Mimran.

Mimran, along with his partners, is accused of stealing between 300 million to 1.6 billion euros in a fraud case commonly referred to in Europe as "the scam of the century."

The report said that since the early 2000s, the Mimran family loaned Netanyahu, then Zionist finance minister, a spacious apartment on Avenue Victor Hugo, in the heart of Paris' 16th Arrondissement.

Mimran is free on a bail of 100,000 euros after spending 10 months in jail awaiting indictment on charges including extortion in a different case.

The trial of Mimran, who denies all of the allegations against him, is set to start in Paris on May 2.

Police are also probing his possible involvement in other cases, including the mysterious murder of his ex-wife's billionaire father Claude Dray.

This week, Mediapart journalist Fabrice Arfi published the photograph of Mimran relaxing with Netanyahu on the French Riviera.

In a series of articles slated to be published over the coming weeks, whose details were shared with Haaretz, Mediapart will say that Mimran has benefited from wide-ranging connections that have delayed his trial until now.

The name of Netanyahu appears first among such connections as revealed by Mediapart.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team