The Tel Aviv District Court rejected a request by Miki Ganor, the key defendant in the submarine case, to disqualify his police testimonies as state witness from being used as evidence. The judge ruled that 'for these reasons and additional reasons that will be detailed in the verdict, I found no basis for the disqualification claims. I determine that all of the defendant's confessions were given of his own free will, and I accept them as evidence.' Ganor is charged in the serious security case involving the state's procurement of naval vessels.