Tim Cheung (@TimCheung)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/10-israelis-set-to-be-indicted-for-illegally-exporting-missiles-to-china/ "The Financial Department of #Israel's State Prosecutor’s Office informed 10 individuals and three companies on Monday that they would be indicted on serious security offenses linked to selling #missiles to #China without approval...the deal in question was brokered by Ephraim Menashe, an #Israeli #drone entrepreneur and founder of the Solar Sky company, who then hired Tzvika and Ziv Naveh, owners of the Innocon drone company, and other unnamed suspects. 'The suspects were investigated as part of a large-scale security case in which it was suspected that they manufactured, brokered and exported cruise missiles for military use, without a permit', said prosecutors. The suspects will be summoned to a pre-indictment hearing before facing a range of charges, including security offenses, weapons offenses, money laundering, violating the Defense Export Control Law and more...According to prosecutors, #Menashe and the other suspects 'manufactured dozens of cruise missiles and carried out different tests in Israeli territory, endangering people’s lives'. Once the missiles were manufactured, Menashe allegedly exported dozens of them to #China in a covert manner in exchange for millions of dollars that he hid from authorities, prosecutors allege...Menashe was tangled up in a similar case in 2006, when he was investigated for attempting to sell drones to China without a permit. The munitions allegedly developed in the current affair use a more advanced version of the technology at the center of the older case, according to information obtained by The Times of Israel."