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Packer Funds Netanyahu Defense, Israel Bars Foreign Payments
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- James Packer paid $1.25 million to Hadad Roth Shenhar to defend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- The funds were sent as $50,000 monthly wires from Packer’s Consolidated Press International account beginning 23 September 2024.
- Clancy Moore, Australian director of Transparency International, demanded urgent independent scrutiny of the payments amid Netanyahu’s trial.
- Israeli authorities ruled Netanyahu cannot accept foreign funds for his defence because of conflict-of-interest rules.