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erusalem — Shabtai
Kalmanovitz, you
might think, has
enough to worry about.
For years, the flashy style
and fancy parties of the
42-year-old millionaire
businessman attracted a
steady stream of highly
placed political and military
figures to his home next door
to the British Embassy in Tel
Aviv.
But Shabtai Kalmanovitz is
unlikely ever again to
dispense his hospitality and
his favors—in the form of
highly favorable business
deals—to Israel's elite.
Last week, it was an-
nounced that the ambitious
young man who immigrated
to Israel from the Soviet
Union in 1971 had been ar-
rested by Israeli intelligence
officers on suspicion of being
a Russian spy.
And late last week, to add
to the considerable burdens
that must be weighing on him
in his lonely prison cell, came
the news that not only the
axe-man, but also the tax-
man, cometh.
If Shabati Kalmanovitz, as
is widely suspected, was a
Soviet agent since he arrived
in Israel, he must have re-
ceived some remuneration for
his services.
That point was not lost on
the head of Israel's income
tax investigation department,
Avraham Tza•afti. He was, he
declared, launching an in-
quiry into the affairs of
Kalmanovitz, "who must pay
tax on all his income, even if
it is derived from spying."
The income Kalmanovitz
received from his alleged
paymasters in Moscow, how-
ever, would very likely pale
into insignificance beside the
fortune he accumulated in
the process of climbing the
social ladder and attracting
the attention of some of the
most illustrious and influen-
tial members of Israeli
society.
He is reported to have ac-
quired major interests
throughout the eastern bloc
— in Hungary, Czechoslo-
vakia and the Soviet Union
itself — as well as in Africa.
He also forged a close rela-
tionship with Lucas Man-
gope, head of the South
African black homeland of
Bophuthatswana, who ap-
pointed him its official
representative in Israel.
That union returned a
j
handsome profit through a
series of massive building
contracts, which were in-
variably awarded to Kal-
manovitz even though he was
seldom the lowest bidder (he
allegedly would pocket the
cash, subcontract the work to
the company that had, in fact,
offered the lowest bid, and
walk away with a tidy profit).
But his real coup — quite
literally — came in the West
African state of Sierra Leone,
where he reportedly helped to
bring President Joseph
Momoh to power in 1985. It
Imas an inspired endeavor
and, as a gesture of profound
esteem, the new leader
granted Kalmanovitz exten-
sive mineral concessions in
his country.
Indeed, it was through a
diamond deal in Sierra Leone
It was through a
diamond deal in
Sierra Leone that
Kalmanowitz
received his first
taste of prison.
that Kalmanovitz received his
first taste of prison. Last
August, he and his associate,
Vladimir Davidson, were
picked up in London on suspi-
cion of attempting to pass $2
million in counterfeit checks
drawn on the Merin Lynch
brokerage house.
Kalmanovitz managed to
persuade the British police
that he had received the
checks as payment for a con-
signment of diamonds he had
sold in Sierra Leone and that
he had no idea they were not
the real thing. He was re-
leased and allowed to return
to Israel.
The Justice Department in
Washington, however, was not
so willing to accept the ex-
planation. Kalmanovitz was
duly charged in the United
States, and then released on
bail and allowed to return to
Israel yet again.
According to one well-in-
formed source, it was his
"legal problem" in the United
States that persuaded the
Israeli military censor to
finally allow publication of
the fact that Kalmanovitz had
been arrested by Shin Bet
agents on December 23.
Publication might have
been suppressed indefinitely,
said the source, if the Israeli
authorities had not feared
that the U.S. Justice Depart-
ment would begin to ask em-