The Defense Ministry is investigating suspicions that Maj. Gen. (ret.) Israel Ziv, his company CTS Global and his business partners have broken the law regarding military exports.

• The first was the establishment and equipping of the presidential guard unit, and a larger force composed of members of the president’s tribal loyalists.
• The other element of the contract was that Global would teach Guinean decision-makers in a ‘strategic’ workshop, for the stated purpose of increasing awareness of democratic values.

The French government and the United Nations approached Israel with a request to examine the involvement of Israeli military advisors in Guinea.

CTS Global said, it is a technical process of clarification regarding business norms and they add they are cooperating with the process.

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