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'Cheating MK' demands retrial

Former Knesset Member Yehiel Hazan wants Supreme Court to review double-voting case

Former Knesset Member Yehiel Hazan, convicted in a double-voting scandal during his term as MK, is demanding a retrial. Hazan's motion follows a Yedioth Ahronoth exposé that showed current Finance Minister Ronnie Bar-On voting in place of MK Inbal Gavrieli.

 

Hazan petitioned the Supreme Court Sunday, demanding a retrial. His attorney, Asher Chen, claimed that the former MK approached police officials and Attorney General Menachem Mazuz and asked them to look into the affair. However, Hazan says the matter has not yet been looked into.

 

At the time, Hazan was sentenced to four months of community service following his conviction in the affair, where he was said to vote in place of another Knesset member. However, the former MK says that the new revelations would have changed the ruling in his case had they been presented to the court. Hazan also says that the witnesses questioned in connection with the affair, including Bar-On, faced a flawed interrogation.

 

"The magistrate's court's verdict in Hazan's case caused him irreversible damage, and if there are fears of a faulty verdict, he should be granted a retrial," Hazan's petition read.

 

Meanwhile, Hazan told Ynet: "Ronnie Bar-On was on the committee that revoked my immunity and he knows exactly what he did. I paid a heavy price and I demand a full acquittal. I want to clear the disgrace ascribed to me for an act I did not commit. I truly hope that the court, which I have faith in, will reexamine the issue in light of the new evidence and reverse the injustice done to me."

 


פרסום ראשון: 12.07.08, 17:55
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