Following the resumption of the trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, News 12 reported tonight (Monday) that the State Attorney’s Office is considering summoning businessman Arnon Milchen to testify during the hearing of the witnesses in the 4000 case.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pleaded guilty at a court hearing. Photo: Contact
The prosecution also reports that the prosecution is concerned about the connection between Milchen and Netanyahu’s attorney, Adv. Boaz Ben-Zur. According to the report, last week Milchen accidentally called one of the investigators of the National Fraud Investigation Unit, when he thought he was calling Ben-Zur. Invalid pressures are exerted on Milchen.
Nearly nine months after Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Jerusalem District Court on the opening day of his trial in May last year, the prime minister returned to the courtroom today to discuss his presence and the presence of the other defendants in the Alps cases, where they were required to respond to the charges against them. These are the former owners of Bezeq and the Walla website, the couple Shaul and Iris Elowitz, as well as Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon (Noni) Mozes, and they all pleaded guilty to the charges against them. Shortly after the hearing began, Netanyahu thanked the judges and left the courtroom. His defense command.
During the hearing of the Chief Prosecutor in the Prime Minister’s cases, Adv. Liat Ben-Ari, admitted for the first time that the approvals to open the investigation in the 4,000 and 1,000 cases were given insufficiently. She said this in response to the allegations of the Prime Minister’s attorneys, who demand that the indictment against Netanyahu be dismissed on the grounds of deficiencies in the process of obtaining the approval of the ombudsman. Subsequently, Elovich’s attorneys attacked the prosecution and claimed that they did not receive the list of witnesses in an orderly manner as well as additional materials.