After Netanyahu files complaint, police ‘examining’ statements of ex-Shin Bet chief Argaman

Police say they are examining the statements of former Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman after he threatened in an interview to release unspecified information about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he seek to act against the law and undermine the state.

Netanyahu filed a police complaint against the former security chief earlier today, accusing him of blackmail.

Addressed directly to Israel Police chief Daniel Levy, the letter charges Argaman with choosing to “blackmail a sitting prime minister with threats… as though the head of Israel’s intelligence agency were a mafia member.”

Police respond to the complaint, saying that Levy had “instructed the head of the Investigations and Intelligence Unit to examine the statements of former Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman.”

In an interview with Channel 12, Argaman disclosed that he has “a great deal of knowledge, which I can put to use” about the premier, but that he chooses to keep it out of the public sphere for the time being.

However, “If the State of Israel or if I conclude that the prime minister has decided that he is going to act in contradiction to the law, then I will not have a choice and I will say everything I know and have refrained from saying until today,” he warned.