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MK Cabel testified in PM-Mozes talks case

The Zionist Union MK said ‘I had no idea whatsoever of any dialogue between the two people’; Sara Netanyahu also testified for a several hours yesterday in reported gifts affair.

MK Eitan Cabel (Zionist Union) has provided evidence to the police as part of an investigation into alleged meetings that took place between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the publisher of Yedioth Ahronoth, Arnon Mozes.

 

 

The MK said Thursday morning during a radio program hosted by Army Radio that he provided the evidence.

 

The prime minister’s wife, Sara Netanyahu also said that yesterday she had provided testimony on the investigation into the apparent gifts affair at the National Fraud Investigations Unit.

 

Mrs. Netanyahu secretly arrived at the Israel Police's Anti-Fraud Unit Lahav 433 in Lod on Wednesday where she answered a series of questions for a number of hours put to her by investigators.

 

MK Eitan Cabel and Sara Netanyahu
MK Eitan Cabel and Sara Netanyahu

 

Cabel said during the radio show that two days ago he was invited by the police to give evidence.

 

“The testimony was short. They wanted to see if I gave all the things that I could know because really, I had no idea whatsoever of any dialogue between the two people, this disrespectful and embarrassing dialogue,” he said.

 

A report published in the Haaretz newspaper on Wednesday by reporter Gidi Weitz revealed alleged new details into the Netanyahu-Mozes affair.

 

“According to sources close to the case, Mozes explained to Netanyahu that the attacks against him in the press, which are authorized by him (Mozes's—ed), are the result of him not being able to sit quietly while the prime minister tries to destroy his family's work," Gidi Weitz reported.

 

According to the report, "Netanyahu, on his part, informed Mozes that if Yedioth Ahronoth pummels him during the election, he's going to come after them. The conversation was recorded. Netanyahu was careful to add that any retaliation would be done so legally. It is interesting to think what legal moves the prime minister and minister of Communication could take against a privately-owned newspaper."

 

On Sunday, the police gathered further evidence from Minister of Tourism Yariv Levin (Likud), who was called in by the National Fraud Investigations Unit to give testimony. Levin served as the chairman of the Knesset House Committee in 2014. 

 

According to some of the details known about the case thus far, the police suspect that businessman Arnon Milchen gave gifts to Netanyahu.

 

According to the reporter Amnon Abramovich, for 7-8 years Milchen gave, among other things, cigars and bottles of alcohol worth thousands of shekels.

 

For his part, Netanyahu is suspected, according to the official statement by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, of receiving favors from businessmen.

 

It was also reported that in 2014, the prime minister spoke three times with Secretary of State John Kerry asking him to take care of a problem Milchen was facing with his visa. According to the report, Milchen’s problems were, indeed, resolved.

 

Channel 10 reported that during searches that were conducted at Milchen’s offices in Ramat Gan, receipts were found “recording the acquisition of cigars, bottles of champagne and other gifts.”

 

Baruch Kra of Channel 10 reported that “as far as we know, more than NIS 400,000 on the same receipts were found in Milchen’s office. People connected what is happening were investigated yesterday.”

 

Arnon Mozes is the publisher and owner of Yedioth Ahronoth Group, which includes Ynet.

 


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