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Sports Betting Board 'shares' the wealth
By Guy Leshem
Tags: shaul schneider, sports 

The former head of the Israel Sports Betting Board, Shaul Schneider, has already been involved with one extensive police investigation concerning his connections with the board's suppliers. And now the former Likud activist, who was appointed to head the ISBB by Limor Livnat during her tenure as education minister, is the subject of another investigation, this time by the state comptroller.

In his report published yesterday, State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss describes how the gaming board, which is charged with promoting and financing Israeli sports with Toto and Winner gaming revenues, allocated NIS 15 million for the construction of 160 five-a-side soccer fields all over the country, at locations carefully chosen as being the most needy. Funding for the project was further boosted with generous participation by European Football Federation and the Israel Soccer Federation.

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ccording to the state comptroller's report, Schneider's political cronies were hired to execute the project, which was never completed, without a tender being issued. The people were hired through middlemen (also cronies) who were allegedly responsible for "selling the idea" to local councils in exchange for inflated fees that totaled 25% of the project's budget.
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