Under $3 Billion Secret Deal:
UAE Buying Spy Planes From Zionist Regime
TEL AVIV (Dispatches) -- A report by the law firm "Appleby” and published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed that the UAE had signed a contract with the Zionist regime to get sophisticated spy planes.
Work on the secret deal worth about $3 billion began ten years ago, it said, noting that the occupying regime was disguised through Zionist businessman Mate Kochavi. The UAE has already received one of those aircraft, it said.
According to leaked documents obtained by Haaretz, part of the cost of the deal was already paid in cash. The newspaper noted that senior UAE officials were linked to the agreement.
The deal includes two spy planes, one of which was supplied to the UAE about a year ago, the report said. After the systems were installed, it has begun flights in recent weeks in preparation for its final delivery to the UAE Army next year.
Kochavi, through his business enterprise the Swiss firm AGT International, purchased two executive jets from the Canadian firm Bombardier (serial numbers 9494, 9517) in 2012, for about 43 million euros per plane, it said.
AGT was also responsible for providing a substantial amount of the systems installed in the aircraft.
However, the upgrading itself was done by the British firm Marshall, contracted by AGT, as part of a deal worth almost $100 million.
Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported the occupying regime of Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE were exchanging intelligence about Iran.
The Tony Blair Institute revealed in August last year that the Zionist regime was running trade relations of up to $1 billion annually with the Persian Gulf Arab states.
Jamal al-Suwaidi, founder of the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, told the British newspaper the Guardian in an interview in March that the Palestinian issue was no longer at the top of the agenda in the Persian Gulf states.
Zionist FM Israel Katz told a ministers’ meeting in Jerusalem Al-Quds on August 6 that he was working toward "transparent normalization and signed agreements” with a number of Persian Gulf littoral states.
Work on the secret deal worth about $3 billion began ten years ago, it said, noting that the occupying regime was disguised through Zionist businessman Mate Kochavi. The UAE has already received one of those aircraft, it said.
According to leaked documents obtained by Haaretz, part of the cost of the deal was already paid in cash. The newspaper noted that senior UAE officials were linked to the agreement.
The deal includes two spy planes, one of which was supplied to the UAE about a year ago, the report said. After the systems were installed, it has begun flights in recent weeks in preparation for its final delivery to the UAE Army next year.
Kochavi, through his business enterprise the Swiss firm AGT International, purchased two executive jets from the Canadian firm Bombardier (serial numbers 9494, 9517) in 2012, for about 43 million euros per plane, it said.
AGT was also responsible for providing a substantial amount of the systems installed in the aircraft.
However, the upgrading itself was done by the British firm Marshall, contracted by AGT, as part of a deal worth almost $100 million.
Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported the occupying regime of Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE were exchanging intelligence about Iran.
The Tony Blair Institute revealed in August last year that the Zionist regime was running trade relations of up to $1 billion annually with the Persian Gulf Arab states.
Jamal al-Suwaidi, founder of the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, told the British newspaper the Guardian in an interview in March that the Palestinian issue was no longer at the top of the agenda in the Persian Gulf states.
Zionist FM Israel Katz told a ministers’ meeting in Jerusalem Al-Quds on August 6 that he was working toward "transparent normalization and signed agreements” with a number of Persian Gulf littoral states.