Israeli investigators have asked South African authorities to help probe how and why Prime Minister Ariel Sharon received $1.5 million dollars from a South African businessman, the Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported. According to the paper, the money was to serve as collateral for a loan Sharon’s sons took out to pay back a company that contributed to Sharon’s 1999 bid for the Likud Party leadership. The paper said Sharon and his sons were suspected of alleged fraud and breach of trust, but that no one in the family had been questioned yet.
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