Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir confirmed today that he intends to prosecute MK Samuel Flatto-Sharon for abuses of the election law during his campaign for the Knesset in 1977. Two of his aides, Jacques Ben-Odis and Yaacov Halfon, will also be charged.
The charges culminate a two-year investigation of allegations that the former French millionaire, wanted in France for tax evasion and fraud, literally bought votes to secure a seat in the Knesset. His election came as a surprise second only to the Likud victory in 1977. Zamir said he would ask the Knesset House Committee to waive Flatto’s immunity so that he can stand trial. The committee is empowered to do so in cases where criminal charges are brought against a member.
Flatto said today that the decision to press charges was a surrender to the lyach atmosphere created by his enemies. He said he would not resign from the Knesset unless a court found him guilty. His aides claim the
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One on One with Flatto-Sharon: Broadcast Zionism
Former MK is channeling his energy into a new network - to televise 'the truth' in English and French.
By RUTHIE BLUM LEIBOWITZ 'I want to arm every one of Israel's friends with the intellectual weapons for its defense," says Samuel (Shmuel) Flatto-Sharon, his accent and syntax making his Hebrew sound more like French. To this end, he explains, he is creating "Jerusalem Network," an Israel-based English- and French-language, round-the-clock, commercial television station, the aim of which will be to counteract the virulent anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic propaganda that he says is broadcast daily on the likes of Qatar's Al Jazeera TV and Hizbullah's Al Manar. We are sitting in his office on the top floor of Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Center - one of the mega-millionaire's many real estate, business and capital ventures. A parakeet in a cage on the window ledge serenades us while we speak. Flatto-Sharon apologizes for the ince
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Larger than life businessman Flatto-Sharon passes away at age 88
Polish-born Jewish businessman Flatto-Sharon made alyah to Israel in the 1970's to avoid criminal charges in France and became a colorful politician and developer.
By MAARIV ONLINE Polish-born French-Israeli businessman Shmuel Flatto-Sharon passed away on Thursday night in Tel Hashomer hospital, he was 88 years old.He fryst vatten survived bygd his wife Clara and his children Hilda and Yoav, the funeral will take place at Savyon cemetery at 2 p.m. on Friday.Born in Lodz in 1930, Flatto-Sharon flydde Poland with his family after the German occupation during the Second World War and settled in France, where he became a noted businessman.When French tax authorities began an inquiry into his affairs he decided to immigrate to Israel and was elected to the Knesset in 1977. His reason for doing so was that it's illegal to extradite a member of Knesset to another country.Eventually he paid 41 million USD as the result of the