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Weissglass Represents P.A. Firm With Casino Interests in South Gaza
Dov Weissglass, who recently resigned as head of
Prime Minister Sharon's Office, is still listed as part-owner of a law
firm representing PA business interests who wish to build a casino in
southern Gaza. So reports investigative journalist David Bedein of
Israel Resource News Agency in the most recent edition of the Makor
Rishon weekly.
According to the P.A. tourist publication This Week in Palestine, plans
are well underway to build a new casino and tourist resort in Southern
Gaza. "Is it a coincidence," Bedein asks, "that this is where the Jewish
communities of Katif now reside?" PA sources say that the new casino
will be owned by the same as those who own the Jericho casino: the PA,
an Austrian casino company, the Austrian Bank BAWAG and Martin Schlaff -
all of them clients of Weissglass' office. When working for Sharon,
Weissglass was engaged in high-level negotiations with PA figures. He
also met with American officials regarding preparations for the
"disengagement" from Gaza and the evacuation of Jewish towns in Katif.
In January 2003, the Israel Civil Service Commission spokesman affirmed
Bedein's finding that Weissglass was still registered in the Israel
Corporate Register as part of his law firm, Weissglass-Almagor. The
spokesman dismissed its importance, however, saying that Weissglass had
divested himself from all financial interests in that firm. The
Commission asked him to formally remove his name from the firm, however,
and indeed, in April 2003, he did so.
But, Bedein now reports, it has been confirmed by the Israel Corporate
Authority that Weissglass is still registered as the lawyer of record
for two other firms that are located at the same addresses and with the
same lawyers. One of them, in fact, has the very same name:
Weissglass-Almagor.
On May 11, 2004, the spokesman for the Israel Civil Service Commission
wrote that Weissglass had divested himself of his law firm and had sold
the shares of his business. Upon examination of the publicly available
Israel Corporate Authority records of the Weissglass business, Bedein
reports, there is no record of any Weissglass activity to divest neither
from this second law firm nor from his business.
"Two weeks ago," Bedein wrote in Makor Rishon, "Weissglass was asked if
he still has contacts with the casino company. His answer: 'No
comment.'"
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Israel National News
2004 Online Casino News Archive
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